Revision history for Perl extension DBD-Pg.
0.92 Jun 16, 1999
- proposal from Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>:
increase BUFSIZE from 1024 to 32768 in order to improve
I/O performance.
- bug-fix in Makefile.PL for $POSTGRES_HOME not defined
spotted by mdalphin@amgen.com (Mark Dalphin)
- bug-fix for data-type datetime in type_info_all
spotted by Alan Grover <awgrover@iconnect-inc.com>
- bug-fix for escaped 's spotted by Hankin <hankin@consultco.com>
- removed 'large objects' related tests from test.pl
0.91 Feb 14, 1999
- removed restriction for commercial use in copyright
- corrected DATA_TYPE in type_info_all()
0.90 Jan 15, 1998
- discard parameter authtype from connect string
- remove work-around for bug in the large object
interface of postgresql
0.89 Nov 05, 1998
- bug-fix from Jan Iven <j.iven@rz.uni-sb.de>:
fix problem with quoting Null in bind variables.
0.88 Oct 10, 1998
- fixed blob_read
- suppressed warning when testing DBI::errstr
0.87 Sep 05, 1998
- Pg.xs adapted to Driver.xst from DBI-1.0
- major rewrite of module documentation
- major rewrite of the test script
- use built-in DBI method for $dbh->do
- add macro dHTR in order to avoid compile errors
with threaded perl5.005
- renamed attribute AutoEscape to pg_auto_escape
- renamed attribute SIZE to pg_size
- new attribute pg_type
- added support for DBI->data_sources($driver)
- added support for $dbh->table_info
- blob_read documented and added to test.pl
- added support for attr parameter in bind_param()
0.86 Aug 21, 1998
- added /usr/lib/ to search path for libpq.
- added ChopBlanks, patch from
Victor Krasinsky <victor@rdovira.lviv.ua>
- changed test.pl to test multiple database handles
0.85 July 19, 1998
- non-printable characters in parameters will not be
converted to '.'. They are passed unchanged to the
database.
0.84 July 18, 1998
- bug-fix from Max Cohan <mcohan@adnc.net>:
check for \xxx presentation before escaping backslash
in parameters.
- introduce new database handle attribute AutoEscape, which
controls escaping of quotes and backslashes in parameters.
When set to on, all quotes except at the beginning and
at the end of a line will be escaped and all backslashes
except when used to indicate an octal presentation (\xxx)
will be escaped. Default of AutoEscape is on.
0.83 July 10, 1998
- bug-fix from Max Cohan <mcohan@adnc.net>:
using traces together with undef in place-holders dumped
core.
0.82 June 20, 1998
- bug-fix from Matthew Lenz <matthew@nocturnal.org>:
corrected include path in Makefile.PL .
- added 'use strict;' to test.pl
0.81 June 13, 1998
- bug-fix from Rolf Grossmann <grossman@securitas.net>:
undefined parameters in an execute statement will be
translated from 'undef' to 'NULL'. Also every parameter
for bind_param() will be quoted by default (escape quote
and backslash). Appropriate tests have been added to test.pl.
- change ping method to use libpq-interface.
0.80 June 07, 1998
- adapted to postgresql-6.4:
the backend protocol has changed, which needs an adapted
ping method. A ping-test has been added to the test-script.
Also some type identifiers have changed.
0.73 June 03, 1998
- changed include directives in Makefile.PL from
archlib to installarchlib and from sitearch to
installsitearch (Tony.Curtis@vcpc.univie.ac.at).
- applied patch from Junio Hamano <junio@twinsun.com>
quote method also doubles backslash.
0.72 April 20, 1998
- applied patch from Michael J Schout <mschout@gkg.net>
which fixed the bug with queries containing the cast
operator.
- applied patch from "Irving Reid" <irving@tor.securecomputing.com>
which fixed a memory leak.
0.71 April 04, 1998
- applied patch from "Irving Reid"
<irving@tor.securecomputing.com> which fixed the
the problem with the InactiveDestroy message.
0.70 March 28, 1998
- linking again with the shared version of libpq
due to problems on several operating systems.
0.69 March 6, 1998
- expanded the search path for include files
- module is now linked with static libpq.a
0.68 March 3, 1998
- return to UNIX domain sockets in test-scripts
0.67 February 21, 1998
- remove part of Driver.xst due to compile
error on some systems.
0.66 February 19, 1998
- remove defines in Pg.h so that
it compiles also with postgresql-6.2.1
- changed ping method: set RaiseError=0
0.65 February 14, 1998
- adapted to changes in DBI-0.91, so that the
default setting for AutoCommit and PrintError is
again conformant to the DBI specs.
0.64 February 01, 1998
- changed syntax of data_source (ODBC-conformant):
'dbi:Pg:dbname=dbname;host=host;port=port'
!!! PLEASE ADAPT YOUR SCRIPTS !!!
- implemented place-holders
- implemented ping-method
- added support for $dbh->{RaiseError} and $dbh->{PrintError},
note: DBI-default for PrintError is on !
- allow commit and rollback only if AutoCommit = off
- added documentation for $dbh->tables;
- new method to get meta-information about a given table:
$dbh->DBD::Pg::db::attributes($table);
- host-parameter in test.pl is set explicitly to localhost
0.63 October 05, 1997
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.2:
o $sth->rows as well as $sth->execute
and $sth->do return the number of
affected rows even for non-Select
statements.
o support for password authorization added,
please check the man-page for pg_passwd.
- the data_source parameter of the connect
method accepts two additional parameters
which are treated as host and port:
DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname:host:port", "uid", "pwd")
- support for AutoCommit, please read the
module documentation for impacts on your
scripts !
- more perl-ish handling of data type bool,
please read the module documentation for
impacts on your scripts !
0.62 August 26, 1997
- added blobs/README
0.61 August 23, 1997
- adapted to DBI-0.89/Driver.xst
- added support for blob_read
0.52 August 15, 1997
- added support for literal $sth->{'TYPE'},
pg_type.pl / pg_type.pm.
0.51 August 12, 1997
- changed attributes to be DBI conformant:
o OID_STATUS to pg_oid_status
o CMD_STATUS to pg_cmd_status
0.5 August 05, 1997
- support for user authentication
- support for bind_columns
- added $dbh->tables
0.4 Jun 24, 1997
- adapted to DBI-0.84:
o new syntax for DBI->connect !
o execute returns 0E0 -> n for SELECT stmt
-1 for non SELECT stmt
-2 on error
- new attribute $sth->{'OID_STATUS'}
- new attribute $sth->{'CMD_STATUS'}
0.3 Apr 24, 1997
- bug fix release, ( still alpha ! )
0.2 Mar 13, 1997
- complete rewrite, ( still alpha ! )
0.1 Feb 15, 1997
- creation, ( totally pre-alpha ! )