From: Jason LaRiviere <jason@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T10:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: "postgres" module needs work, author gone, patch included

Jeff Davis wrote:
> What would help me the most is to do one or more of the following:
> 
> (1) Test my patch against the snapshot version available from the
> 'postgres' module website, see if it fixes the problem
> (2) If the problem is not fixed, send a more detailed report. If it is
> fixed, let me know.
> (3) Let me know of any extra things you'd like the driver to do, or any
> behaviors you'd like to change. In particular what do you expect from
> "escape" and "quote".
> 
> I don't know anything about making the module portable to OS X, but it
> doesn't sound hard to do after I have some more details.
> 
> I'll keep hacking away, and I'll set up a site and an SVN repo, and I'll
> make an announcement. It sounds like there's demand. Thanks for your input.

I'm on board; a couple notes:
http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/ appears to be the homepage for the
project, and offers a snapshot dated 2005.12.21. 

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9553 offers a snapshot dated
2006.04.06. This package forms the basis for the openbsd port, and will
be the one I will be patching against and testing. If all is well, I
will submit an updated port for openbsd including your patch.

The project homepage also specifies that `this library works with
PostgreSQL 6.4-8.1', and the macbook is running postgresql 8.2.1. This
may, or may not have something to do with it's refusal to work. :p

I will confirm this with an update to pgsql 8.2.1 on the openbsd machines
and get back to you.

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