CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v0.14.0-dev

• Backwards incompatible changes
  • Invoke encode_to_iodata! instead of encode! in JSON encoder
  • Remove Postgrex.CIDR and use Postgrex.INET to encode both inet/cidr (as Postgres may perform implicit/explicit casting at any time)
  • Postgrex.Time, Postgrex.Date and Postgrex.Timestamp were deprecated and now have been effectively removed

v0.13.3 (2017-05-31)

• Enhancements

  • Reload types on unknown oid during prepare

• Bug fixes

  • Fix default timeout for connection process from 5000s to 15000s

v0.13.2 (2017-03-05)

• Bug fixes
  • Do not build invalid dates at compilation time on Elixir master

v0.13.1 (2017-02-20)

• Enhancements

  • Allow naming Postgrex.Notifications server
  • Provide tsvector and lexeme support using binary formats

• Bug fixes

  • Fix encoding of Decimal values that would be wrong in certain circumstances
  • Add :crypto to applications
  • Specify proper Elixir dependency
  • Restore compatibility with postgres versions prior to 8.4 and with redshift

v0.13.0 (2016-12-17)

• Enchancements

  • Support built-in geometry types
  • Fallback to PGDATABASE system env for the database
  • Support bit and varbit types
  • Add postgres error code to error messages
  • Support unprepared when using a stream
  • :connect_timeout and :handshake_timeout to configure tcp connect and handshake timeouts
  • Improve numeric encode/decode

• Bug fixes

  • Quote channel on listen/unlisten
  • Check datetime structs available before defining calendar extension
  • Backoff all awaiting connections if a bootstrap fails to prevent timeout loop
  • Handle idle admin shutdown of postgres backend
  • Fix rebootstrap query to be O(Nlog(N)) instead of O(N^2)
  • Fix encoding of numerical values

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • :copy_data query option is no longer supported and data can only be copied to the database using a collectable
  • Query struct has removed encoders/decoders and changed param_info/result_info values
  • Extensions now use a new encoder/decoder API based on quoted expressions
  • The :extensions, :decode_binary and :null options in start_link are no longer supported in favor of defining custom types with Postgrex.Types.define(module, extra_extensions, options). Postgrex.Types.define/3 must be called on its own file, outside of any module and function, as it only needs to be defined once during compilation.

v0.12.1 (2016-09-29)

• Enchancements

  • Support special "char" type

• Bug fixes

  • Limit re-bootstrap to one connection at a time
  • Fix re-bootstrap of new composite types that use old types

v0.12.0 (2016-09-06)

• Enhancements
  • Raise DBConnection.ConnectionError on connection error
  • Use send encoding to determine citext encoding
  • Use Map in favor of deprecated modules (to avoid warnings on v1.4)
  • Run rebootstrap test synchronously on every connect
  • Add support for Elixir 1.3+ Calendar types

v0.11.2 (2016-06-16)

• Enhancements

  • Add support for COPY TO STDOUT and COPY FROM STDIN
  • Support packets bigger than 64MB
  • Introduce mode: :savepoint for prepare/execute/close that allows wrapping a request in a savepoint so that an error does not fail the transaction
  • Introduce streaming queries
  • Add :decode_binary option which is either :copy (default) or :reference.

• Bug fixes

  • Consistently convert the port number to integer
  • Remove type server entry on disconnect

v0.11.1 (2016-02-15)

• Enhancements

  • Support PgBouncer transaction/statement pooling
  • Include more information in error messages
  • Add support for built-in postgres point type
  • Add Postgrex.child_spec/1
  • Allow custom encoding/decoding of postgres' NULL on a per query basis

• Bug fixes

  • Correctly pad decimal digits during encoding

v0.11.0 (2016-01-21)

• Enhancements

  • Rely on DBConnection. This means better performance by copying less data between processes, faster encoding/decoding, support for transactions, after_connect hooks, connection backoff, logging, prepared queries, the ability to use both Poolboy and Sojourn as pools out of the box, and more

• Backwards incompatible change

  • Connection API from Postgrex.Connection has been moved to Postgrex
  • Notifications API from Postgrex.Connection has been moved to Postgrex.Notifications

v0.10.0 (2015-11-17)

• Enhancements

  • Improve error message on encoding/decoding failures
  • Add network types such as: inet, cidr and macaddr
  • Improve TCP error messages
  • Support PGPORT environment variable
  • Improve decoding performance by caching extension information
  • Improve query performance by decoding in the client process hence not blocking the connection
  • Raise if number of parameters to query is wrong

• Bug fixes

  • Correctly handle errors in connection initialization with sync_connect: true
  • Do not fail on custom error codes
  • Correctly handle large number of parameters, also fixes some protocol issues where unsigned integers were treated as signed

v0.9.1 (2015-07-14)

• Enhancements
  • Revert client side decoding as affects performance negatively (around 15% slower)
  • Cast floats and integers to decimal if a decimal is requested

v0.9.0 (2015-07-12)

• Enhancements

  • Cached type bootstrapping for less memory usage and faster connection set up
  • The result set is now decoded in the calling process to reduce time spent in the connection process
  • Add a decode: :manual option to Postgrex.query/4 and the function Postgrex.decode/2 for manually decoding the result
  • Add :sync_connect option to Postgrex.start_link/1

• Bug fixes

  • Correctly handle extension types created inside schemas

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Each row in Postgrex.Result.rows is now a list of columns instead of a tuple

v0.8.4 (2015-06-24)

• Bug fixes
  • Fix version detection

v0.8.3 (2015-06-22)

• Enhancements
  • Add Postgrex.Extensions.JSON extension for json and jsonb types
  • Set suitable TCP buffer size automatically

v0.8.2 (2015-06-01)

• Enhancements

  • Add :socket_options option to Postgrex.start_link/1
  • Improved performance regarding binary handling
  • Add hstore support

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Remove :async_connect option and make it the default

v0.8.1 (2015-04-09)

• Enhancements

  • Keep the postgres error code in :pg_code
  • Support oid types and all its aliases (regclass etc)

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Rename :msec field to :usec on Postgrex.Time and Postgrex.Timestamp

• Bug fixes

  • Fix numeric encoding for fractional numbers with less digits than the numeric base
  • Support encoding timetz type
  • Fix time and timestamp off-by-one bounds

v0.8.0 (2015-02-26)

• Enhancements

  • Add extensions
  • Encode/decode ranges generically
  • Add bounds when encoding integer types to error instead of overflowing the integer
  • Log unhandled Postgres errors (when it cant be replied to anyone)
  • Add support for enum types
  • Add support for citext type
  • Add microseconds to times and timestamps
  • Add the ability to rebootstrap types for an open connection

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Remove the support for type-hinted queries
  • Remove encoder, decoder and formatter functions, use extensions instead
  • Use structs for dates, times, timestamps, interval and ranges
  • Change the default timeout for all operations to 5000ms
  • Show Postgres error codes as their names instead

v0.7.0 (2015-01-20)

• Enhancements

  • Add asynchronous notifications through listen and unlisten
  • Add support for range types
  • Add support for uuid type
  • Add :async_connect option to start_link/1

• Bug fixes

  • Fix encoding nil values in arrays and composite types

v0.6.0 (2014-09-07)

• Enhancements

  • Queries can be constructed of iodata
  • Support "type hinted" queries to save one client-server round trip which will reduce query latency

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Postgrex.Error postgres field is converted from keyword list to map
  • Postgrex.Connect.query params parameter is no longer optional (pass an empty list if query has no parameters)
  • The timeout parameter for all functions have been moved to a keyword list with the key :timeout

v0.5.5 (2014-08-20)

• Enhancements
  • Reduce the amount of intermediary binaries constructed with the help of iodata

v0.5.4 (2014-08-04)

v0.5.3 (2014-07-13)

v0.5.2 (2014-06-18)

v0.5.1 (2014-05-24)

• Backwards incompatible changes
  • Postgrex.Error exception converted to struct

v0.5.0 (2014-05-01)

• Backwards incompatible changes
  • Postgrex.Result and Postgrex.TypeInfo converted to structs

v0.4.2 (2014-04-21)

• Enhancements
  • Add timeouts to all synchronous calls. When a timeout is hit an exit error will be raised in the caller process and the connection process will exit
  • Add automatic fallback to environment variables PGUSER, PGHOST and PGPASS

v0.4.0 (2014-01-16)

• Enhancements
  • Numerics decode and encode to Decimal

v0.3.1 (2014-01-15)

• Enhancements
  • Compact state before printing to logs and hide password
  • Concurrency support, safe to use connection from multiple processes concurrently

v0.3.0 (2013-12-16)

• Bug fixes

  • Don't try to decode values of text format

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Types are stored as binaries instead of atoms, update your custom encoders and decoders

v0.2.1 (2013-12-10)

• Enhancements

  • Add support for SSL

• Bug fixes

  • Fix decoding of unknown type when using custom decoder

v0.2.0 (2013-11-14)

• Enhancements

  • Floats handles NaN, inf and -inf
  • Add support for numerics
  • Custom encoders and decoders works on elements in arrays
  • Add support for composite types
  • Add functions that raise on error

• Bug fixes

  • INSERT query works with extended query parameters
  • Return proper num_rows on PostgreSQL 8.4
  • Fix race condition

• Backwards incompatible changes

  • Simplify custom decoding and encoding with default function

v0.1.0 (2013-10-14)

First release!