Hackers, David Wheeler and I have released DBD:pg 1.20 to CPAN and
gborg. That completes the last moved interface I am involved with.
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David Wheeler wrote:
> The uploaded file
>
> DBD-Pg-1.20.tar.gz
>
> has entered CPAN as
>
> file: $CPAN/authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/DBD-Pg-1.20.tar.gz
> size: 75821 bytes
> md5: ea9e217321fb62515b3723a86ecbfcdf
>
>
> This is the first release under new management at GBorg. Here's a list
> of changes in the new version, along with attributions:
>
> 1.20 Wed Nov 27 16:19:26 2002
> - Maintenance transferred to GBorg,
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/dbdpg/projdisplay.php.
> Incremented
> version number to reflect new management. [Bruce Momjian]
> - README cleaned up. [Bruce Momjian]
> - Added t/15funct.t, a series of tests that determine if the meta
> data
> is working. [Thomas Lowery]
> - Added implementations of column_info() and table_info(), and
> primary_key_info(). [Thomas Lowery]
> - The POD formatting was cleaned up. [David Wheeler]
> - The preparser was updated to better handle escaped characters.
> [Rudy
> Lippan]
> - Removed redundant use of strlen() in pg_error() (Jason E.
> Stewart).
> - Test suite cleaned up, converted to use Test::More, and updated
> to use
> standard DBI environment variables for connecting to a test
> database.
> [Jason E. Stewart]
> - Added eg/lotest.pl as a demonstration of using large objects in
> buffers
> rather than files. Contributed by Garth Webb.
> - Added LISTEN/NOTIFY functionality. Congributed by Alex Pilosov.
> - Added constants for common PostgreSQL data types, plus simple
> tests to
> make sure that they work. These are exportable via "use DBD::Pg
> qw(:pg_types);". [David Wheeler]
> - Deprecatated the undocumented (and invalid) use of SQL_BINARY in
> bind_param() and documented the correct approach: "bind_param($num,
> $val { pg_type => PG_BYTEA });". Use of SQL_BINARY in bind_param() will
> now issue a warning if $h->{Warn} is true. [David Wheeler]
> - Removed invalid (and broken) support for SQL_BINARY in quote().
> [David
> Wheeler]
> - Added App::Info::RDBMS::PostgreSQL to the distribution (but it
> won't
> be installed) to help Makefile.PL find the PostgreSQL include
> and
> library files. [David Wheeler]
> - Fixed compile-time warnings. [David Wheeler and Jason E.
> Stewart]
>
> Enjoy!
>
> David
>
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