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# $Id: Changes,v 1.18 2000/04/04 19:08:46 mergl Exp $
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# Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Edmund Mergl
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Revision history for Perl extension Pg.
1.9.0 Apr 04 2000
- remove compile errors with perl5.6
- remove old-style interface
- change return value in case of failure from -1 to undef
- for building the module it is required to set the environment
variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB
1.8.2 Mar 31 1999
- bug-fix in Makefile.PL for $POSTGRES_HOME not defined
- bug-fix in doQuery() spotted by
Christopher Hutton <crhutton@welcomecard.com>
- minor changes to be compliant with libpq
- use PQsetdbLogin (using the provided userid/password)
instead of PQsetdb
1.8.1 Jan 14 1999
- applied patch from David Smith <dasmith@perseus.tufts.edu>:
missing first character in dbanme parameter of connect string.
- changed link-type so static on hpux < 10.0
1.8.0 Sep 27 1998
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.4:
added support for
o PQsetdbLogin
o PQpass
o PQsocket
o PQbackendPID
o PQsendQuery
o PQgetResult
o PQisBusy
o PQconsumeInput
o PQrequestCancel
o PQgetlineAsync
o PQputnbytes
o PQmakeEmptyPGresult
o PQbinaryTuples
o PQfmod
- fixed conndefaults()
- fixed lo_read
1.7.4 May 28 1998
- applied patches from
Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>:
o changed Makefile.PL to look for include files
and libs in the source tree, except when the
environment variable POSTGRES_HOME is set.
o bug-fix in test.pl
1.7.3 Mar 28 1998
- linking again with the shared version of libpq
due to problems on several operating systems.
1.7.2 Mar 06 1998
- module is now linked with static libpq.a
1.7.1 Mar 03 1998
- expanded the search path for include files
- return to UNIX domain sockets in test-scripts
1.7.0 Feb 20 1998
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.3:
add host=localhost to the conninfo-string
of test.pl and example-scripts
- connectdb() converts dbname to lower case,
unless it is surrounded by double quotes
- added new method fetchrow, now you can do:
while (@row = $result->fetchrow)
1.6.3 Sep 25 1997
- README update
1.6.2 Sep 20 1997
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.2:
o added support for new method cmdTuples
o cmdStatus returns now for DELETE the status
followed by the number of affected rows,
- test.pl.newstyle renamed to eg/example.newstyle
- test.pl.oldstyle renamed to eg/example.oldstyle
- example script ApachePg.pl now uses
$result->print with HTML option
- Makefile looks for $ENV{POSTGRES_HOME} instead of
$ENV{POSTGRESHOME}
1.6.1 Jun 02 1997
- renamed to pgsql_perl5
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.1
- test only functions, which are also
tested in pgsql regression tests
1.5.4 Feb 12, 1997
- changed test.pl for large objects:
test only lo_import and lo_export
1.5.3 Jan 2, 1997
- adapted to PostgreSQL-6.0
- new functions PQconnectdb, PQuser
- changed name of method 'new' to 'setdb'
1.4.2 Nov 21, 1996
- added a more Perl-like syntax
1.3.2 Nov 11, 1996
- adapted to Postgres95-1.09
- test.pl adapted to postgres95-1.0.9:
PQputline expects now '\.' as last input
and PQgetline outputs '\.' as last line.
1.3.1 Oct 22, 1996
- adapted to Postgres95-1.08
- large-object interface added, thanks to
Sven Verdoolaege (skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be)
- PQgetline() changed. This breaks old scripts !
- PQexec now returns in any case a valid pointer.
This fixes the annoying message:
'res is not of type PGresultPtr at ...'
- testsuite completely rewritten, contains
now examples for almost all functions
- resturn codes are now available as constants (PGRES_xxx)
- PQnotifies() works now
- enhanced doQuery()
1.2.0 Oct 15, 1995
- adapted to Postgres95-1.0
- README updated
- doQuery() in Pg.pm now returns 0 upon success
- testlibpq.pl: added test for PQgetline()
1.1.1 Aug 5, 95
- adapted to postgres95-beta0.03
- Note: the libpq interface has changed completely !
1.1 Jun 6, 1995
- Bug fix in PQgetline.
1.0 Mar 24, 1995
- creation