DBD::Pg 3.0.0, Perl driver for PostgreSQL, released

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Version 3.0.0 of DBD::Pg, the Perl interface to Postgres,
has just been released. As you can see from the version 
number, this is a major release. In addition to many 
bugfixes and enhancements, the behavior of pg_enable_utf8 
has been changed. The minimum versions of Perl (5.8.1) 
and DBI (1.614) have been increased.

The new version is available from CPAN. Checksums:

58c2613bcb241279aca4c111ba16db48  DBD-Pg-3.0.0.tar.gz
03ded628d453718cbceaea906da3412df5a7137a  DBD-Pg-3.0.0.tar.gz

The complete list of changes:

Version 3.0.0
 - Major change in UTF-8 handling. If client_encoding is set to UTF-8,    always mark returned Perl strings as utf8.
Seethe pg_enable_utf8 docs   for more information.   [Greg Sabino Mullane, David E. Wheeler, David Christensen]
 
 - Bump DBI requirement to 1.614
 - Bump Perl requirement to 5.8.1
 - Add new handle attribute, switch_prepared, to control when we stop    using PQexecParams and start using
PQexecPrepared.The default is 2:    in previous versions, the effective behavior was 1 (i.e. PQexecParams    was never
used).  [Greg Sabino Mullane]
 
 - Better handling of items inside of arrays, particularly bytea arrays.   [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #91454)
 - Map SQL_CHAR back to bpchar, not char   [Greg Sabino Mullane, reported by H.Merijn Brand]
 - Do not force oids to Perl ints   [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #85836)
 - Return better sqlstate codes on fatal errors   [Rainer Weikusat]
 - Better prepared statement names to avoid bug   [Spencer Sun] (CPAN bug #88827)
 - Add pg_expression field to statistics_info output to show    functional index information   [Greg Sabino Mullane]
(CPANbug #76608)
 
 - Adjust lo_import_with_oid check for 8.3   (CPAN bug #83145)
 - Better handling of libpq errors to return SQLSTATE 08000   [Stephen Keller]
 - Make sure CREATE TABLE .. AS SELECT returns rows in non do() cases
 - Add support for AutoInactiveDestroy   [David Dick] (CPAN bug #68893)
 - Fix ORDINAL_POSITION in foreign_key_info   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (CPAN bug #88794)
 - Fix foreign_key_info with unspecified schema   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (CPAN bug #88787)
 - Allow foreign_key_info to work when pg_expand_array is off   [Greg Sabino Mullane and Tim Bunce] (CPAN bug #51780)
 - Remove math.h linking, as we no longer need it   (CPAN bug #79256)
 - Spelling fixes   (CPAN bug #78168)
 - Better wording for the AutoCommit docs   (CPAN bug #82536)
 - Change NOTICE to DEBUG1 in t/02attribs.t test for handle attribute "PrintWarn":   implicit index creation is now
quieterin Postgres.   [Erik Rijkers]
 
 - Use correct SQL_BIGINT constant for int8   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker]
 - Fix assertion when binding array columns on debug perls >= 5.16   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker]
 - Adjust test to use 3 digit exponential values   [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #59449)
 - Avoid reinstalling driver methods in threads   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (CPAN bug #83638)
 - Make sure App::Info does not prompt for pg_config location    if AUTOMATED_TESTING or PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT is set
[DavidE. Wheeler] (CPAN bug #90799)
 
 - Fix typo in docs for pg_placeholder_dollaronly   [Bryan Carpenter] (CPAN bug #91400)
 - Cleanup dangling largeobjects in tests   [Fitz Elliott] (CPAN bug #92212)
 - Fix skip test counting in t/09arrays.t   [Greg Sabino Mullane] (CPAN bug #79544)
 - Explicitly specify en_US for spell checking   [Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsker] (CPAN bug #91804)


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