psqlODBC 08.01.0102 Released, and other project news.

psqlODBC 08.01.0102 is now available for download from
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions. This version includes the
following changes:

- Server side prepare now works correctly.
- A bug in SQLTables that shows up in Borland SQL Explorer in
Declare/Fetch mode has been fixed.
- A number of inconsistent internal APIs have been cleaned up. These
issues only showed up on some OS's.
- Correct value returned by SQLGetInfo for
SQL_CATALOG_LOCATION/SQL_QUALIFIER_LOCATION. This prevented use of the
driver in Visual Studio 2005.

In other news, I'd like to thank Ludek Finstrle (Luf) who is responsible
for fixing the first of those two bugs, and has also been working on
other non-trivial issues deep inside the driver. To help with his work,
Luf has suggested a more formal method of releasing psqlODBC development
snapshots for testing - something which I must admit I should have done
a while back.

To that end, development snapshots will now be released on the pgFoundry
project site at http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000125. Release
versions of the driver will continue to be released on the PostgreSQL
mirror network. To help identify different versions of the driver, the
following version numbering scheme will be used.

The first two sets of two numbers will continue to roughly track the
current PostgreSQL version.

The last four numbers will represent the build. If the last 2 digits are
both zero, a stable version is indicated. If the last two digits are
non-zero, it is a development snapshot.

So, starting with the next stable release, we will have:

08.01.0200 - Stable
08.01.0201 - Development
...
...
08.01.0299 - Development
08.01.0300 - Stable

Of course, we won't necessarily have 99 snaphosts between stable
releases!

Regards, Dave.