-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Version 3.0.0 of DBD::Pg, the Perl interface to Postgres, has just been released. As you can see from the version number, this is a major release. In addition to many bugfixes and enhancements, the behavior of pg_enable_utf8 has been changed. The minimum versions of Perl (5.8.1) and DBI (1.614) have been increased.
The new version is available from CPAN. Checksums: 58c2613bcb241279aca4c111ba16db48 DBD-Pg-3.0.0.tar.gz 03ded628d453718cbceaea906da3412df5a7137a DBD-Pg-3.0.0.tar.gz The complete list of changes: 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 Mannsker] (CPAN bug #88794) - Fix foreign_key_info with unspecified schema [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (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 Mannsker] - Fix assertion when binding array columns on debug perls >= 5.16 [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] - Adjust test to use 3 digit exponential values [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #59449) - Avoid reinstalling driver methods in threads [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (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 Mannsker] (CPAN bug #91804) - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201402050932 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAlLyS34ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsjLcgCeM413ALNdM7rj4SfYMnyEmee5 VtAAnj56tNtWoK9dWJKVg1wHgTsXBXok =6wwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----