Guile-pg is a Guile module providing access and allowing updates to
PostgreSQL databases from Guile scripts. Guile is the GNU interpreter
for the Scheme language and PostgreSQL is a free relational database
management system.
Changes since 0.53 include:
* Much improved support for Microsoft servers, including SQL Server 2000
datatypes and domain logins.
* Support and convertibility of all major datatypes.
* Much expanded coverage of the ODBC API.
* An all-new BCP implementation, including host variable support.
* Character set conversions, via the iconv library.
* Threadsafe operation.
This is specified at run-time by setting pgsql_home=/path/to/home in
/etc/rc.conf. Ensure that ${pgsql_home} has the correct permissions
(o=${pgsql_user}, g=${pgsql_group}, m=0750) before initializing the
database.
Splitting out a common Makefile for future unixodbc-postgresql and
iodbc-postgresql packages.
Changes from version 7.1.3 include:
Remove query size limit (Hiroshi)
Remove text field size limit (Hiroshi)
Fix for SQLPrimaryKeys in multibyte mode (Hiroshi)
Allow ODBC procedure calls (Hiroshi)
Improve boolean handing (Aidan Mountford)
Most configuration options on setable via DSN (Hiroshi)
Multibyte, performance fixes (Hiroshi)
Allow driver to be used with iODBC or unixODBC (Peter E)
MD5 password encryption support (Bruce)
Add more compatibility functions to odbc.sql (Peter E)
This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.2, including fixes to prevent
possible data loss.
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
Changes from version 7.2.2 include:
Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)
Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
Fix possible hang during server shutdown
Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
