ANNOUNCE: pgtcl 1.5 beta 1 release

This is the first beta release of Pgtcl 1.5, also
known as libpgtcl, a package that adds PostgreSQL
client extensions to the Tcl programming language.
Pgtcl 1.5 has some bug fixes and many new features.
There is also updated documentation and a test suite.

For more information and pre-compiled windows DLLs, go
to:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgtcl/projdisplay.php

NOTE: pgtcl is in the transition of moving to
http://www.pgfoundry.org, so if the above link does
not work correctly, check with
http://www.pgfoundry.org.

Pgtcl was tested on WindowsXP, Windows 2000, Linux
(SuSE 9.1), and FreeBSD. It was tested against PG
databases running version 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0. Note
however, that this release does not contain any new
client features that were introduced with PG 8.0.

New features:

o Proper Tcl namespace support, in the ::pg namespace

o Connection and result handles can be used as
commands.

o -dict option in pg_result (experimental, since the
Tcl dictionary API could possible change). Requires
Tcl 8.5 or the dict extension
http://pascal.scheffers.net/software/

o New -connhandle option to pg_connect. Gives the user
the ability to name the connection handle.

o New -connlist option to pg_connect. Another
alternative to passing the connection parameters,
using a Tcl name/value list.

o New pg_dbinfo command

o New escape commands: pg_escape_string,
pg_escape_bytea,
pg_unescape_bytea

o Test suite, which covers common scenarios. Is not
near exhaustive yet. Based on tcltest.

o updated documentation

o Helper procs in the playpen directory

Please visit the pgtcl project home page and
http://wiki.tcl.tk/pgtcl for more detail information.

--brett