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DBD-Pg-3.0.0
River stage three • 76 direct dependents • 147 total dependents
97 ++

Changes for version 3.0.0

  • Major change in UTF-8 handling. If client_encoding is set to UTF-8, always mark returned Perl strings as utf8. See the pg_enable_utf8 docs for more information.
    • Greg Sabino Mullane, David E. Wheeler, David Christensen
  • Bump DBI requirement to 1.614
  • Bump Perl requirement to 5.8.1
  • Add new handle attribute, switch_prepared, to control when we stop using PQexecParams and start using PQexecPrepared. The default is 2: in previous versions, the effective behavior was 1 (i.e. PQexecParams was never used).
    • Greg Sabino Mullane
  • Better handling of items inside of arrays, particularly bytea arrays. [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #91454)
  • Map SQL_CHAR back to bpchar, not char
    • Greg Sabino Mullane, reported by H.Merijn Brand
  • Do not force oids to Perl ints [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #85836)
  • Return better sqlstate codes on fatal errors
    • Rainer Weikusat
  • Better prepared statement names to avoid bug [Spencer Sun] (CPAN bug #88827)
  • Add pg_expression field to statistics_info output to show functional index information [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #76608)
  • Adjust lo_import_with_oid check for 8.3 (CPAN bug #83145)
  • Better handling of libpq errors to return SQLSTATE 08000
    • Stephen Keller
  • Make sure CREATE TABLE .. AS SELECT returns rows in non do() cases
  • Add support for AutoInactiveDestroy [David Dick] (CPAN bug #68893)
  • Fix ORDINAL_POSITION in foreign_key_info [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker] (CPAN bug #88794)
  • Fix foreign_key_info with unspecified schema [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker] (CPAN bug #88787)
  • Allow foreign_key_info to work when pg_expand_array is off [Greg Sabino Mullane and Tim Bunce] (CPAN bug #51780)
  • Remove math.h linking, as we no longer need it (CPAN bug #79256)
  • Spelling fixes (CPAN bug #78168)
  • Better wording for the AutoCommit docs (CPAN bug #82536)
  • Change NOTICE to DEBUG1 in t/02attribs.t test for handle attribute "PrintWarn": implicit index creation is now quieter in Postgres.
    • Erik Rijkers
  • Use correct SQL_BIGINT constant for int8
    • Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
  • Fix assertion when binding array columns on debug perls >= 5.16
    • Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
  • Adjust test to use 3 digit exponential values [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #59449)
  • Avoid reinstalling driver methods in threads [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker] (CPAN bug #83638)
  • Make sure App::Info does not prompt for pg_config location if AUTOMATED_TESTING or PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT is set [David E. Wheeler] (CPAN bug #90799)
  • Fix typo in docs for pg_placeholder_dollaronly [Bryan Carpenter] (CPAN bug #91400)
  • Cleanup dangling largeobjects in tests [Fitz Elliott] (CPAN bug #92212)
  • Fix skip test counting in t/09arrays.t [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #79544)
  • Explicitly specify en_US for spell checking [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker] (CPAN bug #91804)

Modules

DBD::Pg
PostgreSQL database driver for the DBI module
Bundle::DBD::Pg
A bundle to install all DBD::Pg related modules

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