From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2013-03-26T23:38:34+09:00
Subject: [ANN] pg 0.15.0 Released

pg version 0.15.0 has been released!

* <https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg> (home)
* <https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg> (mirror)
* <http://deveiate.org/code/pg> (docs)

Pg is the Ruby interface to the {PostgreSQL RDBMS}[http://www.postgresql.org/].

It works with {PostgreSQL 8.3 and later}[http://bit.ly/6AfPhm].

A small example usage:

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby

  require 'pg'

  # Output a table of current connections to the DB
  conn = PG.connect( dbname: 'sales' )
  conn.exec( "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity" ) do |result|
    puts "     PID | User             | Query"
  result.each do |row|
      puts " %7d | %-16s | %s " %
        row.values_at('procpid', 'usename', 'current_query')
    end
  end

Changes:

== v0.15.0 [2013-03-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>

Bugfixes:

- Fix segfault in PG::Result#field_values when called with non String value.
- Fix encoding of messages delivered by notice callbacks.
- Fix text encoding for Connection#wait_for_notify and Connection#notifies.
- Fix 'Bad file descriptor' problems under Windows: wrong behaviour of
  #wait_for_notify() and timeout handling of #block on Ruby 1.9.

Documentation fixes:

- conn#socket() can not be used with IO.for_fd() on Windows.

Enhancements:

- Tested under Ruby 2.0.0p0.
- Add single row mode of PostgreSQL 9.2.
- Set fallback_application_name to programm name $0. Thanks to Will Leinweber
  for the patch.
- Release Ruby's GVL while calls to blocking libpq functions to allow better
  concurrency in threaded applications.
- Refactor different variants of waiting for the connection socket.
- Make use of rb_thread_fd_select() on Ruby 1.9 and avoid deprecated
  rb_thread_select().
- Add an example of how to insert array data using a prepared statement (#145).
- Add continous integration tests on travis-ci.org.
- Add PG::Result#each_row for iterative over result sets by row. Thanks to
  Aaron Patterson for the patch.
- Add a PG::Connection#socket_io method for fetching a (non-autoclosing) IO
  object for the connection's socket.

Specs:

- Fix various specs to run on older PostgreSQL and Ruby versions.
- Avoid fork() in specs to allow usage on Windows and JRuby.