From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200211271836.gARIaV209914@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] ANNOUNCE: DBD::Pg 1.20
In-Reply-To: <84A43EBC-0235-11D7-929B-0003931A964A@wheeler.net>
To: David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:36:31 -0500 (EST)
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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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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