This is the pgtcl-ng Source Release NEWS file
Last updated for pgtcl-1.5.0 on 2004-02-28
The project home page is: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgtclng/
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* 2004-02-28    pgtcl-ng 1.5.0 Released

This is the first release of pgtcl-ng. (The version number is 1.5.0 for
continuity with previous implementations of this interface.) Highlights of
this release are:

  * From Gborg pgtcl project:
    1. Stand-alone Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA) build system
    2. New asynchronous query commands
    3. New: Get query results as lists
    4. New: pg_escape_string
  * New in Pgtcl-ng:
    5. Completed conversion to use Tcl-8 objects
    6. New: pg_transaction_status, check in-transaction status
    7. New: pg_parameter_status, get server parameter value
    8. New: pg_exec_prepared, execute prepared queries, binary-safe
    9. New: pg_notice_handler, change Notice and Warning handler
   10. New: Get extended error message field values
   11. New: Get extended column attribute information
   12. New: Test query result values for NULL
  * New reference manual
  * Windows binary release

There are also numerous fixes, include Large Object error handling, and a
rewritten COPY implementation which can now deal with records longer than
4096 bytes. (Bet you didn't know that limitation was there...) Please note:
Many of the new commands should be considered 'experimental' and possibly
subject to change.

More detailed changes can be found in the ChangeLog files. Please note,
however, that it is likely that not all changes between bundled PostgreSQL
libpgtcl, Gborg pgtcl, and Gborg pgtcl-ng have been recorded.

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