psycopg2/NEWS-2.3

What's new in psycopg 2.3.3
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* New features and changes:

  - Added `register_composite()` function to cast PostgreSQL composite types
    into Python tuples/namedtuples.
  - More efficient iteration on named cursors.
  - The build script refuses to guess values if pg_config is not found.
  - Connections and cursors are weakly referenceable.
  - Added 'b' and 't' mode to large objects: write can deal with both bytes
    strings and unicode; read can return either bytes strings or decoded
    unicode.
  - COPY sends Unicode data to files implementing io.TextIOBase.
  - The build script refuses to guess values if pg_config is not found.
  - Improved PostgreSQL-Python encodings mapping. Added a few
    missing encodings: EUC_CN, EUC_JIS_2004, ISO885910, ISO885916,
    LATIN10, SHIFT_JIS_2004.
  - Dropped repeated dictionary lookups with unicode query/parameters.
  - Empty lists correctly roundtrip Python -> PostgreSQL -> Python.

* Bug fixes:

  - Fixed adaptation of None in composite types (ticket #26). Bug report by
    Karsten Hilbert.
  - Fixed several reference leaks in less common code paths.
  - Fixed segfault when a large object is closed and its connection no more
    available.
  - Added missing icon to ZPsycopgDA package, not available in Zope 2.12.9
    (ticket #30). Bug report and patch by Pumukel.


What's new in psycopg 2.3.2
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  - Fixed segfault with middleware not passing DateStyle to the client
    (ticket #24). Bug report and patch by Marti Raudsepp.


What's new in psycopg 2.3.1
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  - Fixed build problem on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 (ticket #23).


What's new in psycopg 2.3.0
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psycopg 2.3 aims to expose some new features introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0.

* Main new features:

  - `dict` to `hstore` adapter and `hstore` to `dict` typecaster, using both
    9.0 and pre-9.0 syntax.
  - Two-phase commit protocol support as per DBAPI specification.
  - Support for payload in notifications received from the backed.
  - `namedtuple`-returning cursor.
  - Query execution cancel.

* Other features and changes:

  - Dropped support for protocol 2: Psycopg 2.3 can only connect to PostgreSQL
    servers with version at least 7.4.
  - Don't issue a query at every connection to detect the client encoding
    and to set the datestyle to ISO if it is already compatible with what
    expected.
  - `mogrify()` now supports unicode queries.
  - Subclasses of a type that can be adapted are adapted as the superclass.
  - `errorcodes` knows a couple of new codes introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0.
  - Dropped deprecated Psycopg "own quoting".
  - Never issue a ROLLBACK on close/GC. This behaviour was introduced as a bug
    in release 2.2, but trying to send a command while being destroyed has been
    considered not safe.

* Bug fixes:

  - Fixed use of `PQfreemem` instead of `free` in binary typecaster.
  - Fixed access to freed memory in `conn_get_isolation_level()`.
  - Fixed crash during Decimal adaptation with a few 2.5.x Python versions
    (ticket #7).
  - Fixed notices order (ticket #9).


What's new in psycopg 2.2.2
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* Bux fixes:

  - the call to logging.basicConfig() in pool.py has been dropped: it was
    messing with some projects using logging (and a library should not
    initialize the logging system anyway.)
  - psycopg now correctly handles time zones with seconds in the UTC offset.
    The old register_tstz_w_secs() function is deprecated and will raise a
    warning if called.
  - Exceptions raised by the column iterator are propagated.
  - Exceptions raised by executemany() interators are propagated.


What's new in psycopg 2.2.1
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* Bux fixes:

  - psycopg now builds again on MS Windows.


What's new in psycopg 2.2.0
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This is the first release of the new 2.2 series, supporting not just one but
two different ways of executing asynchronous queries, thanks to Jan and Daniele
(with a little help from me and others, but they did 99% of the work so they
deserve their names here in the news.)

psycopg now supports both classic select() loops and "green" coroutine
libraries. It is all in the documentation, so just point your browser to
doc/html/advanced.html.

* Other new features:

  - truncate() method for lobjects.
  - COPY functions are now a little bit faster.
  - All builtin PostgreSQL to Python typecasters are now available from the
    psycopg2.extensions module.
  - Notifications from the backend are now available right after the execute()
    call (before client code needed to call isbusy() to ensure NOTIFY
    reception.)
  - Better timezone support.
  - Lots of documentation updates.

* Bug fixes:

  - Fixed some gc/refcounting problems.
  - Fixed reference leak in NOTIFY reception.
  - Fixed problem with PostgreSQL not casting string literals to the correct
    types in some situations: psycopg now add an explicit cast to dates, times
    and bytea representations.
  - Fixed TimestampFromTicks() and TimeFromTicks() for seconds >= 59.5.
  - Fixed spurious exception raised when calling C typecasters from Python
    ones.