ANN: Sequel 2.6.0 Released

* Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL
  for constructing database queries and table schemas.
* Sequel also includes a lightweight but comprehensive ORM layer for
  mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records.
* Sequel supports advanced database features such as prepared
  statements, bound variables, master/slave configurations, and
  database sharding.
* Sequel makes it easy to deal with multiple records without having
  to break your teeth on SQL.
* Sequel currently has adapters for ADO, DB2, DBI, Informix, JDBC,
  MySQL, ODBC, OpenBase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite3.

Sequel 2.6.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors.  The 2.6.0 release adds numerous minor features and
improvements:

New Features
------------

* Schema parsing was refactored, resulting in a huge speedup when
  using MySQL.  MySQL now uses the DESCRIBE statement instead of the
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.  PostgreSQL now uses the pg_* system catalogs
  instead of the INFORMATION schema.

* The schema information now includes the :primary_key field.  Models
  now use this field to automatically determine the primary key for
  a table, so it no longer needs to be specified explicitly.  Models
  even handle the composite primary key case.

* The raise_on_typecast_failure switch was added, with it being true
  by default (so no change in behavior).  This allows the user to
  silently ignore errors when typecasting fails, at the global, class,
  and instance levels.

    Sequel::Model.raise_on_typecast_failure = false # Global
    Artist.raise_on_typecast_failure = true # Class
    artist = Artist.new
    artist.raise_on_typecast_failure = false # Instance

    Album.raise_on_typecast_failure = true
    Album.new(:numtracks=>'a') # => raises Sequel::Error::InvalidValue
    Album.raise_on_typecast_failure = false
    Album.new(:numtracks=>'a') # => #<Album @values={:numtracks=>"a"}>

* Associations' orders are now respected when eager loading via
  eager_graph.  Sequel will qualify the columns in the order with
  the alias being used, so you can have overlapping columns when
  eager loading multiple associations.

    Artist.one_to_many :albums, :order=>:name
    Album.one_to_many :tracks, :order=>:number
    Artist.order(:artists__name).eager_graph(:albums=>:tracks).sql
    # => ... ORDER BY artists.name, albums.name, tracks.number

* The support for CASE expressions has been enhanced by allowing the
  use of an optional expression:

    {1=>2}.case(0, :x)
    # => CASE x WHEN 1 THEN 2 ELSE 0 END
    [[:a, 1], [:b, 2], [:c, 3]].case(4, :y)
    # => CASE y WHEN a THEN 1 WHEN b THEN 2 WHEN c THEN 3 ELSE 4 END

  Previously, to get something equivalent to this, you had to do:

    {{:x=>1}=>2}.case(0)
    # => CASE WHEN (x = 1) THEN 2 ELSE 0 END
    [[{:y=>:a}, 1], [{:y=>:b}, 2], [{:y=>:c}, 3]].case(4)
    # => CASE WHEN (y = a) THEN 1 WHEN (y = b) THEN 2 WHEN (y = c)
         THEN 3 ELSE 4 END

* You can now change the NULL/NOT NULL value of an existing column
  using the set_column_allow_null method.

    # Set NOT NULL
    DB.alter_table(:artists){set_column_allow_null :name, false}
    # Set NULL
    DB.alter_table(:artists){set_column_allow_null :name, true}

* You can now get the schema information for a table in a non-public
  schema in PostgreSQL using the implicit :schema__table syntax.
  Before, the :schema option had to be given explicitly to
  Database#schema.  This allows models to get schema information for
  tables outside the public schema.

* Transactions are now supported on MSSQL.

* Dataset#tables now returns all tables in the database for MySQL
  databases accessed via JDBC.

* Database#drop_view can now drop multiple views at once.

Other Improvements
------------------

* The SQLite adapter now respects the Sequel.datetime_class option
  for timestamp and datetime columns.

* Adding a unique constraint no longer explicity creates a unique
  index.  If you want a unique index, use index :unique=>true.

* If no language is specified when creating a full text index on
  PostgreSQL, the simple language is assumed.

* Errors when typecasting fails are now Sequel::Error::InvalidValue
  instead of the more generic Sequel::Error.

* Specifying constraints now works correctly for all types of
  arguments.  Previously, it did not work unless a block or
  interpolated string were used.

* Loading an association with the same name as a table in the FROM
  clause no longer causes an error.

* When eagerly loading many_to_one associations where no objects have
  an associated object, the negative lookup is now cached.

* String keys can now be used with Dataset#multi_insert, just like
  they can be used for Dataset#insert.

* Dataset#join_table now generates the correct SQL when doing the
  first join to a dataset where the first source is a dataset, when
  an unqualified column is used in the conditions.

* Cascading associations after *_to_many associations can now be
  eagerly loaded via eager_graph.

* Eagerly loading *_to_many associations that are cascaded behind a
  many_to_one association now have their duplicates removed if a
  cartesian product join is done.

* The SQLite adapter now uses string literals in all of the AS
  clauses.  While the SQL standard specifies that identifiers should
  be used, SQLite documentation explicitly states that string
  literals are expected (though it generally works with identifiers
  by converting them implicitly).

* Database methods that modify the schema now remove the cached
  schema entry.

* The hash keys that Database#schema returns when no table is
  requested are now always supposed to be symbols.

* The generation of SQL for composite foreign keys on MySQL has been
  fixed.

* A schema.rdoc file was added to the documentation explaining the
  various parts of Sequel related to schema generation and
  modification and how they interact
  (http://sequel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/files/doc/schema_rdoc.html).

* The RDoc template for the website was changed from the default
  template to the hanna template.

Backwards Compatibility
-----------------------

* The :numeric_precision and :max_chars schema entries have been
  removed.  Use the :db_type entry to determine this information,
  if available.

* The SQLite adapter used to always return Time instances for
  timestamp types, even if Sequel.datetime_class was DateTime.  For
  datetime types it always returned a DateTime instance.  It
  now returns an instance of Sequel.datetime_class in both cases.

* It's possible that the including of associations' orders when eager
  loading via eager_graph could cause problems.  You can use the
  :order_eager_graph=>false option to not use the :order option when
  eager loading via :eager_graph.

* There were small changes in SQL creation where the AS keyword is
  now used explicitly.  These should have no effect, but could break
  tests for explicit SQL.

If you have any questions, please post on the Google Group.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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