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# $Id: Changes,v 1.18 2000/04/04 19:08:46 mergl Exp $ #
# 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
  • PQsetdbLogin
  • PQpass
  • PQsocket
  • PQbackendPID
  • PQsendQuery
  • PQgetResult
  • PQisBusy
  • PQconsumeInput
  • PQrequestCancel
  • PQgetlineAsync
  • PQputnbytes
  • PQmakeEmptyPGresult
  • PQbinaryTuples
  • PQfmod
• fixed conndefaults()
• fixed lo_read

1.7.4 May 28 1998

• applied patches from Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>:
  • changed Makefile.PL to look for include files and libs in the source tree, except when the environment variable POSTGRES_HOME is set.
  • 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:
  • added support for new method cmdTuples
  • 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