DBD::Pg 2.0.0 released

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Version 2.0.0 of DBD::Pg, the Perl DBI interface to Postgres, has
been released. Find it at your favorite CPAN mirror.
This is a major release, so agrressive testing and feedback is
much appreciated.

Please report any bugs here:

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=DBD-Pg

SHA1 and MD5 checksums:

920fa860ee79f4184201005264ab0ef8d7c0e479 DBD-Pg-2.0.0.tar.gz
71757069e05662985f2931e84edc3e6c DBD-Pg-2.0.0.tar.gz

- From the Changes file:

Major changes:

- Make minimum supported server 7.4. [GSM]
- Overhaul COPY functions: deprecate pg_getline, pg_putline,
and pg_endcopy. The new functions are pg_getcopydata,
pg_getcopydata_async, pg_putcopydata, and pg_putcopyend. [GSM]
- Add support for arrays: can pass in arrayrefs to execute, and
they are automatically returned as arrays when fetching. [GSM]
- Add support for asynchronous queries. [GSM]
- Allow raw transaction statements through - in other words,
do not croak if $dbh->prepare("COMMIT") is attempted. Not
only was this a little too controlling, there is a growing
host of other commands such as "COMMIT PREPARED" that we
need to allow. [GSM].
- Check transaction status after each command, to allow
things such as 'PREPARE TRANSACTION' to work properly.
(CPAN bug #32423) [GSM]
- Overhauled the data type system. [GSM]
- Switch from cvs to subversion. Switch from gborg to perl.org.
- Change versioning system to three numbered system.

Bug fixes:

- Add $dbh->{pg_placeholder_dollaronly} to allow '?' and other symbols
to be used in prepared statements without getting interpreted as
placeholders, i.e. the geometric operator '?#' (CPAN bug #24124) [GSM]
- Fix memory leak in bytea quoting. (CPAN bug #21392). Fix memory leak
in pg_notifies. [Stephen Marshall smarshall(at)wsi(dot)com]
- Fix memory leak when using savepoints. (CPAN bug #29791)
[airwave(at)cpan(dot)org]
- Use adbin, not adsrc, when figuring out the sequence name for the
last_insert_id() method. This allows the function to work properly
if the sequence name is changed. Note that {pg_cache=>0} should be
passed to the function if you expect this might happen.
(CPAN bug #30924) [GSM]
- Use unsigned chars when parsing passed-in queries, preventing UTF-8
strings from ruining the prepare. UTF-16 may still cause problems.
(CPAN bug #31577) [GSM]
- Fix crash when executing query with two placeholders side by side.
Thanks to Daniel Browning for spotting this. [GSM]
- Skip item if no matching key in foreign_key_info.
(CPAN bug #32308) [GSM]
- Fix bug in last_insert_id. (CPAN bug #15918) [orentocy(at)gmail(dot)com]
- Fix pg_description join in table_info(). [Max Cohan max(at)endpoint(dot)com]
- Make sure arrays handle UTF-8 smoothly (CPAN bug #32479) [GSM]
- Force column names to respect utf8-ness. Per report from Ch Lamprect. [GSM]
- Make sure array items are marked as UTF as needed.
(CPAN bug #29656) [GSM]
- Force SQL_REAL and SQL_NUMERIC to be float8 not float4.
(CPAN bug #30010) [GSM]
- Allow objects with stringification overloading to work with quote().
(CPAN bug #32868) [David E. Wheeler and GSM]
- Use prepare_cached in last_insert_id function. (CPAN bug #24313)
- Switch from pow to powf to support AIX compiler issue.
(CPAN bug #24579) [GSM]

Enhancements and API changes:

- Complain loudly and fail to proceed if Makefile.PL finds no -lpq [GSM]
- Add three new columns to column_info, to return unquoted
version: pg_schema, pg_table, and pg_columns. Add all
three to primary_key_info, and the first two to table_info
(CPAN bug #20282) [GSM]
- Change $dbh->{User} to $dbh->{Username} [GSM]
- Change $dbh->{Name} to return the entire DSN string, minus the
'dbi:Pg:' part. Thanks to Mark Stosberg for the idea. [GSM]
- Allow data_sources to accept optional arguments. [GSM]
- Add private_attribute_info() method. [GSM]
- Add SQL_INTERVAL and others to types.c [GSM]
- Added statistics_info function [Brandon Black blblack(at)gmail(dot)com]
- Be much more flexible in test connection options. [GSM]
- Overhaul test suite, allow tests to be run individually. [GSM]

New and experimental:

- Quick support for named trace level 'SQL' [GSM]
- Very experimental support for bind_param_inout, use with caution. [GSM]

Documentation fixes:

- Fix bad PG_INTEGER example in docs, thanks to Xavi Drudis Ferran.
(CPAN bug #31545) [GSM]
- Fix META.yml file. (CPAN bug #25759) [GSM]

- --
Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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