From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T03:21:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-postgres 0.8.0 [RC]

Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> writes:

> Is this a pure ruby implementation or does it have a dependancy on a
> postgres client library ?

This is the version that use libpq.
Thanks Dave Lee for taking over maintainance!


YS.


>
> j.
>
> On 11/29/05, Dave Lee <davelee.com@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For the ruby-postgres users out there, I would like to announce the
>> coming of a 0.8.0 release.  First, some wider spread testing would be
>> a good idea.  The current gem is version 0.7.1.2005.11.27.  This is
>> basically 0.8.0 RC1 (can you do "RC1" type versioning with gems?).
>>
>> What's new:
>>
>> - bug and leak fixes (get_notify works)
>> - bind parameters (postgresql uses $1, $2, etc)
>> - Win32 binary gem
>> - results translated to ruby classes (old behavior of string results
>> is available with PGconn::translate_results = false)
>> - rows are: PGrow < Array; behave like hash, ex row['id'] or row.each
>> {|column,value| ...} and provides to_hash method
>> - rdocs (more work needed)
>> - simplified build
>> - open/connect/new with connection string or hash
>>
>> New methods:
>>
>> - escape_bytea/unescape_bytea
>> - on_notice
>> - transaction_status
>> - server_version, protocol_version
>> - lastval (only available when connected to postgresql >= 8.1)
>> - oid
>>
>> feel free to let me know if you find any bugs.  feature requests are
>> welcome.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
>
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>
> Jeff Wood