Released pgExpress Driver v1.60

Hello all,

Vita Voom Software just released a new version of pgExpress Driver:
v1.60.

The Vita Voom pgExpress PostgreSQL dbExpress Driver is a Borland
Kylix/Delphi 6+/C++ Builder 6.0+ dbExpress Driver that directly access
PostgreSQL 7.1 or newer: no ODBC layer is needed. It can access use
almost all field types, and is compliant to the Borland specifications
of dbExpress drivers.

The pgExpress Driver is the core of the pgExpress Suite of components,
which provides the widest range of features for accessing PostgreSQL
databases.


Changes in this version include:

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Version 1.60 Release Date: 13 Oct 2002

ADDED - New custom setting: FetchCursor. Allows one to use
automatically DECLARE/FETCH cursors. Rows will be retrieved on demand.
For registered users only.

ADDED - Localization support. Now pgExpress support the following
languages: English, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, German, Icelandic
and Chinese (Taiwan). More languages to come...

ADDED - New custom setting: ServerDecimalSeparator. Will allow to
force a Decimal separator char on the server. This should not be
necessary, however, since pgExpress is able to find out the correct
chars automatically.

ADDED - New demo: Params. A simple demonstration of use of Params with
pgExpress.

CHANGED - Updated documentation.

CHANGED - Demo version now allows only max 15 update/isert/delete
commands per transaction.

CHANGED - The packages version of the driver has been dropped.

CHANGED - Updated PGEDemo. Now it should be more portable to Delphi 7.

CHANGED - Updated installer (Windows version only).

FIXED - Fixed bug for some types of prepared queries.

FIXED - Fixed "not under Delphi" issues

FIXED - Fixed PostgreSQL loss of precision when using functions on
numeric values returned by functions suchs as "select
max(my_numeric_field) from test;".

FIXED - Use of Money/Currency type should be ok now.


For checking the pgExpress page in our web site, and downloading it,
please go to http://www.vitavoom.com/Products/pgExpress_Driver/index.html.

Thanks for your attention.

Best Regards,
Steve Howe
Vita Voom Software
http://www.vitavoom.com