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## 4.1.0 (2017-08-02)

- Switched to jbuilder and topkg

## Changes Before Version 4.1.0

```text
2016-02-12: Fixed GTK-example to make it compile again.
Thanks to Jonathan Curran for the patch.
2016-02-11: Improved the notification API (conn#notifies).
Thanks to Jonathan Curran for the initial patch.
2015-12-18: Fixed a GC-bug when unescaping with "unescape_bytea".
Thanks to Sebastien Mondet for the bug report and for testing
the patch.
2015-07-10: Fixed a GC-bug in PQconndefaults_stub.
Thanks to Roven Gabriel for the patch.
2015-03-27: Added methods ftype_oid and paramtype_oid and fixed a minor bug.
Thanks to Tomohiro Matsuyama for the patches.
2015-03-26: Added support for JSON and JSONB field types.
Thanks to Tomohiro Matsuyama for the patch.
2015-01-28: New major release: improved handling of asynchronous operations.
This required an API-change to the "flush" method.
Thanks to Max Wolter from Jane Street Capital for the patch.
2014-10-29: Fixed an installation problem due to a missing internal module.
2014-10-23: Fixed string handling for new OCaml version 4.02 (String/Bytes
modules). Requires new findlib version (>= 1.5).
2014-08-14: Even more new asynchronous methods:
* optional [startonly] flag for creating asynchronous connections
* connect_poll
* reset_start
* reset_poll
And also:
* set_single_row_mode
Thanks to Petter Urkedal <[email protected]> for these
contributions.
2014-08-10: New asynchronous methods:
* send_describe_prepared
* send_describe_portal
Thanks to Petter Urkedal <[email protected]> for these
contributions.
2014-03-10: New asynchronous methods:
* send_prepare
* send_query_prepared
Thanks to Petter Urkedal <[email protected]> for these
contributions.
2013-07-08: Fixed a version discovery problem with beta versions of
PostgreSQL.
Thanks to Stephane Legrand <[email protected]> for the patch.
2012-07-20: Downgraded findlib version constraint to support the Debian
testing branch.
2012-07-15: New major release version 2.0.0:
* Upgraded to OCaml 4.00
* Switched to Oasis for packaging
* Switched to OCamlBuild for the build process
* Rewrote README in Markdown
* Added stricter compilation flags
* Fixed broken copy_out method
2012-01-10: Added new function:
* Postgresql.get_escaped_value
Thanks to Jonathan Derque <[email protected]> for the
patch.
2011-12-29: Fixed a memory allocation bug getting values of binary format.
Thanks to Igor Plotnikov <[email protected]> for the patch.
2011-05-23: Fixed conndefaults bindings some more due to unclear PostgreSQL
documentation.
Thanks to Vijai Lulla <[email protected]> for the bug report.
2011-05-21: Fixed GC bug in conndefaults function.
Thanks to Vijai Lulla <[email protected]> for the bug report.
2010-12-25: Added support for the new bytea hex format in PostgreSQL 9.0.
Thanks to Alain Frisch <[email protected]> for the initial patch.
2010-12-08: Fixed findlib linking problem with bigarrays.
2010-10-17: Added better support for prepared statements.
Added support for zero-copy I/O with large objects.
Thanks to Chris King <[email protected]> for the above two
patches.
Improved handling of sizes in C-bindings.
2010-03-17: Fixed small copy_out bug.
2010-02-17: Signal an error at link time if multi-threading support is
not available.
Thanks to Guillaume Yziquel <[email protected]>
for the hint.
2009-10-12: Fixed example build problem.
2009-10-07: Minor API change.
"socket" method now returns an integer instead of a
Unix file descriptor to avoid type problems under
Windows.
2009-09-18: Fixed serious bug in new escape_string method.
PLEASE UPGRADE
2009-09-08: API-change: deleted "escape_string" function.
There is now a method "escape_string" in the connection
class, which is not deprecated and hence safer.
2009-05-07: Significant improvements to thread-safety.
2009-01-16: Added missing null parameter.
Thanks to Alain Frisch <[email protected]> for the patch.
2009-01-15: Addes support for specifying binary parameters in queries.
Thanks to Alain Frisch <[email protected]> for the patch.
2009-01-05: Switched to generational global root registration of
callbacks for better performance.
Requires OCaml 3.11 or higher.
2008-10-25: Fixed portability problem on Mac OS X.
2008-09-30: Fixed bug that prevented use with PostgreSQL 8.1.
2008-09-29: Added support for connection methods:
* describe_prepared
Added support for result methods:
* nparams
* paramtype
Thanks to Paolo Donadeo <[email protected]> for the
above contributions.
Updated OCamlMakefile.
2008-03-19: Allow commands in one query again (broken after adding support for
query parameters). Updated the INSTALL file with a hint on how
to solve a potential linking problem on Windows.
Thanks to Alain Frisch <[email protected]> for this patch
and hint.
2008-03-14: Merged with Jane Street Capital version (some minor
cleanups).
2008-03-10: Improved portability to Windows. Added support for
parameters in queries. Some internal cleanups.
Thanks to Alain Frisch <[email protected]> for this patch.
2007-03-28: Greatly improved multi-thread support.
Added seek options.
Improved documentation.
Updated OCamlMakefile.
2007-03-28: Fixed a potential GC-bug. Updated OCamlMakefile.
2007-03-19: Updated OCamlMakefile.
2007-03-19: Fixed a linking problem on Mac OS X.
Thanks to Leonardo Cecchi <[email protected]>
for the hint.
2007-01-08: Fixed a build problem related to a bug in OCamlMakefile.
Thanks to Anastasia Gornostaeva <[email protected]>
for the hint.
2007-01-08: Fixed a build problem with non-standard locations of PostgreSQL.
Thanks to Anastasia Gornostaeva <[email protected]>
for the patch.
2006-11-22: Updated OCamlMakefile.
2006-11-08: Upgraded prompt_gtk to LablGTK2.
Tightened compilation warnings.
Removed superfluous linking option.
Replaced obsolete escaping method, and added calls to
PQfreemem required on Windows.
2006-09-15: Updated OCamlMakefile.
2006-08-17: Automatically fetch compiler and linker flags for the local
PostgreSQL-installation for simpler installation. Thanks to
Vincenzo Ciancia <[email protected]> for the hint.
2006-07-21: Fixed GC-bug.
2006-06-08: Fixed GC-bugs.
2006-01-24: Added support for accessing binary fields.
2005-05-31: Fixed some uncleanliness reported by Saffire (an FFI-type
checker).
2005-03-22: Small internal improvement.
2004-12-28: Fixed a potential compilation problem.
2004-12-20: Fixed a bug in the "escape_bytea"-function: escaped strings
contained an extra null character.
Thanks to Christophe Troestler
<[email protected]> for the bug report.
Updated OCamlMakefile.
2004-08-26: Small internal code-improvement.
2004-08-05: Significant improvements: the oid type is now revealed as int in
the interface. The "ftype"-method now returns the new type
"ftype". The latter lists 60 constructors, which specify the
types of fields.
The change comes with new conversion functions:
* ftype_of_oid
* oid_of_ftype
* string_of_ftype
* ftype_of_string
And with new exceptions:
* exception Oid of oid
* exception InternalError of string
2004-08-02: Fixed two serious thread-related bugs.
2004-07-14: Minor update for OCaml-3.08.
Updated OCamlMakefile.
2004-07-06: Added an example "cursor" that demonstrates the use of
cursors.
2004-06-29: Fixed an off-by-one error in method "get_all_lst".
Thanks to Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> for the patch.
Updated OCamlMakefile.
2004-04-27: Updated OCamlMakefile.
2004-04-13: Fixed a problem with backwards compatibility with older
OCaml-versions that do not yet use the caml-namespace (identifiers
not yet prefixed with "caml_").
2004-02-21: Added CAMLprim in the C-interface where appropriate.
2004-02-08: Fixed minor bugs with returning unit values from C.
Made C-interface compile with pedantic compiler settings.
2004-01-29: Some major changes to interface to use or improve handling
of default arguments. Effected methods:
* escape_string
* escape_bytea
* getline
* getline_async
* putnbytes
* lo_write
* lo_read
* lo_seek
Removed methods (obsolete due to default arguments - use
"lo_write" instead):
* lo_write_string
Added functions:
* unescape_bytea
2004-01-28: First release.
```
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