RELEASE: psycopg 2 beta 1

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Hi *,

with this release psycopg 2 officially enters beta testing (yes, I know
two of you out there are already using it for production but I said
"officially", ok? :) This first beta is expected to be a little bit more
unstable than the old 1.99.13, mainly because I rushed any remaining
changes into it.

The most important change is array support; psycopg will now yield list
objects for array columns and adapt and quote complex lists to the
string expected by PostgreSQL. Note: on the PostgreSQL->Python side some
types still need work; everything should be fine the other way around.

Other changes are detailed in the ChangeLog and in the NEWS (excerpt
attached below, as always.) Download from:

  http://initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/psycopg-2.0b1.tar.gz

Please test and have fun,
federico


What's new in psycopg 2.0 beta 1
--------------------------------

* Officially in beta (i.e., no new features will be added.)

* Array support: list objects can be passed as bound variables and are
  correctly returned for array columns.

* Added the psycopg.psycopg1 compatibility module (if you want instant
  psycopg 1 compatibility just "from psycopg import psycopg1 as psycopg".)

* Complete support for BYTEA columns and buffer objects.

* Added error codes to error messages.

* The AsIs adapter is now exported by default (also Decimal objects are
  adapted using the AsIs adapter (when str() is called on them they
  already format themselves using the right precision and scale.)

* The connect() function now takes "connection_factory" instead of
  "factory" as keyword argument.

* New setup.py code to build on win32 using mingw and better error
  messages on missing datetime headers,

* Internal changes that allow much better user-defined type casters.

* A lot of bugfixes (binary, datetime, 64 bit arches, GIL, .executemany())

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