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  r11971 | scottmk | 2009-01-26 08:55:54 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 10 lines

  1. Gave more descriptive names to a number of variables,
  sometimes introducing additional names instead of reusing
  existing names for multiple unrelated purposes.

  2. Rewrote some of the permacrud-related code to
  improve clarity.

  3. Tweaked some debugging messages so that we wouldn't
  try to format them with NULL pointers.
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  r11972 | erickson | 2009-01-26 12:10:10 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  enable direct use of xact_begin/rollback/commit for managing transactions.  change xact_start to xact_begin for consistency
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  r11973 | erickson | 2009-01-26 12:20:39 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  added savepoint support
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  r11974 | erickson | 2009-01-26 13:50:59 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  added support for returning the metarecord holds in open-ils.circ.holds.retrieve_all_from_title
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  r11975 | erickson | 2009-01-26 14:04:51 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  we've seen sip clients in the field that do not handle unicode very well.  until we track down the problem, strip the 'wide characters' from the title string
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  r11978 | phasefx | 2009-01-26 14:47:30 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  accomodate metarecord holds from open-ils.circ.holds.retrieve_all_from_title.  Thanks Bill!
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  r11980 | dbs | 2009-01-26 15:01:05 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 5 lines

  Forward port r11979 from rel_1_4:
  Use local log files rather than syslog by default.
  Set default loglevel to 3 (Info) to avoid filling disk space of unsuspecting users.
  Use LOCALSTATEDIR to enable configure to set location of local log files.
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  r11982 | erickson | 2009-01-26 15:43:27 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  added a streaming, batch mvr retrieval method
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  r11984 | scottmk | 2009-01-26 15:56:33 -0500 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) | 14 lines

  Eliminated all calls to oilsIDLFindPath() in this file.

  This change eliminates the overhead of parsing path
  strings, including the malloc and free that such
  parsing entails.

  In addition: in most cases we had been calling
  oilsIDLFindPath() twice, once to verify that the class
  existed, and again to find whatever piece of it we
  wanted.  This duplication of effort is now gone.
  -This line, and those below, will be ignored--

  M    Open-ILS/src/c-apps/oils_idl-core.c
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