Re: Time for a new CLSQL Release

Just wanted to touch base, and let you know that we have now pushed the 
previously discussed patches upstream.

Cheers,
Russ Tyndall
Acceleration.net


On 7/15/2011 12:00 PM, Russ Tyndall wrote:
> The remaining patch sets add:
>   * Add a new postgres backend based on cl-postgres (which allows the use
> of the version 3 socket api, and command objects/parameters)
>   * Change how database identifiers are emitted to hopefully make this
> less brittle, and more easily intuitable
>    * previously every code path that wanted to emit a database identifier
> was responsible for coercing what was provided into a correctly escaped
> string.  Sometimes two or three functions in a row were trying to
> correctly quote and output that string.  I have tried to centralize this
> type coersion and logic into a single code path.
>
> These patches could affect backwards compatibility for some people and I
> think having a clear release to point them to, would be helpful.  While
> I think most users will not notice a difference, some people who were
> trying to massage specific identifiers through the old, less predictable
> system (like we were), might be affected.