Integrated pre-v4.1.0 changes into regular changelog

Author: mmottl

CHANGES.md

@@ -124,3 +124,329 @@ Thanks to Petter A. Urkedal for the patch.
 ## 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.
+```