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diff --git a/src/interfaces/python/Announce b/src/interfaces/python/Announce index b02f83670bf..20a4bb2668a 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/python/Announce +++ b/src/interfaces/python/Announce @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -Announce: Release of PyGreSQL version 3.0 +Announce: Release of PyGreSQL version 3.1 =============================================== -PyGreSQL v3.0 has been released. +PyGreSQL v3.1 has been released. It is available at: ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL.tgz. If you are running NetBSD, look in the packages directory under databases. There is also a package in the FreeBSD ports collection. @@ -25,16 +25,11 @@ PyGreSQL is a python module that interfaces to a PostgreSQL database. It embeds the PostgreSQL query library to allow easy use of the powerful PostgreSQL features from a Python script. -This release of PyGreSQL is the first DB-SIG API. That's why we have -a bump in the major number. There is also a potential problem in -backwards compatibility. Previously when there was a NULL in a returned -field it was returned as a blank. Now it is more properly returned as -a Python None. Any scripts that expect NULLs to be blanks will have -problems with this. +This release fixes a few bugs, adds a few minor features and makes a +few speedups in the code. -Due to the fact that the DB-API is brand new, it is expected that there -will be a 3.1 release shortly with corrections once many people have -had a chance to test it. +The next release (unless serious bugs are found) will be to match PyGreSQL +to version 2.0 of Python. See the other changes below or in the Changelog file. @@ -44,7 +39,22 @@ andre@chimay.via.ecp.fr. I changed the version to 2.0 and updated the code for Python 1.5 and PostgreSQL 6.2.1. While I was at it I upgraded the code to use full ANSI style prototypes and changed the order of arguments to connect. Later versions are fixes and enhancements to that. -The latest version of PyGreSQL works with Python 1.5.2 and PostgreSQL 6.5. +The latest version of PyGreSQL works with Python 1.5.2 and PostgreSQL 7.0.x + +Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.0 to PyGreSQL 3.1 + - Fix some quoting functions. In particular handle NULLs better. + - Use a method to add primary key information rather than direct + manipulation of the class structures. + - Break decimal out in _quote (in pg.py) and treat it as float. + - Treat timestamp like date for quoting purposes. + - Remove a redundant SELECT from the get method speeding it, and insert + since it calls get, up a little. + - Add test for BOOL type in typecast method to pgdbTypeCache class. + (tv@beamnet.de) + - Fix pgdb.py to send port as integer to lower level function + (dildog@l0pht.com) + - Change pg.py to speed up some operations + - Allow updates on tables with no primary keys. Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.4 to PyGreSQL 3.0: - Remove strlen() call from pglarge_write() and get size from object. |