From: Jeff Davis <ruby@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T03:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: postgresql driver

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:40 +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
> Tim Becker wrote:
> >> complete. I know there are some people willing to work on this driver,
> >> but they don't seem to be able to reach the maintainer.
> > 
> > The DBI team is pretty busy and you need to whine around a bi on the
> > rubyforge forum to get their attention.
> 
> Well, what features do you need that the current driver doesn't implement?
> 

As I posted a while back, there is significant maintenance that this
driver needs. Here are a few problems for which I've already supplied a
patch:

* uses PQescapeString() and PQescapeBytea(), both of which are long-
since deprecated, and provides no interface to the newer functions
(which have been around for a long time).

* uses wrong quoting routine to quote connection string arguments.

* release version doesn't provide any interface to PQexecParams().

* a later snapshot exists, but introduces some ruby array to PG array
type-awareness, but it's broken

In my opinion, this is an unacceptable level of quality for a database
driver, and the sub-1.0 release number is appropriate. Ruby and
PostgreSQL folks alike need a 1.0-quality driver, with documentation
and error reporting to match.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis