# Changelog

## v0.13.2 (2017-03-05)

* Bug fixes
  * Do not build invalid dates at compilation time on Elixir master

## v0.13.1 (2017-02-20)

* Enhancements
  * Allow naming Postgrex.Notifications server
  * Provide tsvector and lexeme support using binary formats

* Bug fixes
  * Fix encoding of Decimal values that would be wrong in certain circumstances
  * Add `:crypto` to applications
  * Specify proper Elixir dependency
  * Restore compatibility with postgres versions prior to 8.4 and with redshift

## v0.13.0 (2016-12-17)

* Enchancements
  * Support built-in geometry types
  * Fallback to `PGDATABASE` system env for the database
  * Support `bit` and `varbit` types
  * Add postgres error code to error messages
  * Support unprepared when using a stream
  * `:connect_timeout` and `:handshake_timeout` to configure tcp connect and handshake timeouts
  * Improve numeric encode/decode

* Bug fixes
  * Quote channel on listen/unlisten
  * Check datetime structs available before defining calendar extension
  * Backoff all awaiting connections if a bootstrap fails to prevent timeout loop
  * Handle idle admin shutdown of postgres backend
  * Fix rebootstrap query to be O(Nlog(N)) instead of O(N^2)
  * Fix encoding of numerical values

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * `:copy_data` query option is no longer supported and data can only be copied to the database using a collectable
  * Query struct has removed encoders/decoders and changed param_info/result_info values
  * Extensions now use a new encoder/decoder API based on quoted expressions
  * The `:extensions`, `:decode_binary` and `:null` options in `start_link` are no longer supported in favor of defining custom types with `Postgrex.Types.define(module, extra_extensions, options)`. `Postgrex.Types.define/3` must be called on its own file, outside of any module and function, as it only needs to be defined once during compilation.

## v0.12.1 (2016-09-29)

* Enchancements
  * Support special "char" type

* Bug fixes
  * Limit re-bootstrap to one connection at a time
  * Fix re-bootstrap of new composite types that use old types

## v0.12.0 (2016-09-06)

* Enhancements
  * Raise DBConnection.ConnectionError on connection error
  * Use send encoding to determine citext encoding
  * Use Map in favor of deprecated modules (to avoid warnings on v1.4)
  * Run rebootstrap test synchronously on every connect
  * Add support for Elixir 1.3+ Calendar types

## v0.11.2 (2016-06-16)

* Enhancements
  * Add support for COPY TO STDOUT and COPY FROM STDIN
  * Support packets bigger than 64MB
  * Introduce `mode: :savepoint` for prepare/execute/close that allows wrapping a request in a savepoint so that an error does not fail the transaction
  * Introduce streaming queries
  * Add `:decode_binary` option which is either `:copy` (default) or `:reference`.

* Bug fixes
  * Consistently convert the port number to integer
  * Remove type server entry on disconnect

## v0.11.1 (2016-02-15)

* Enhancements
  * Support PgBouncer transaction/statement pooling
  * Include more information in error messages
  * Add support for built-in postgres point type
  * Add `Postgrex.child_spec/1`
  * Allow custom encoding/decoding of postgres' NULL on a per query basis

* Bug fixes
  * Correctly pad decimal digits during encoding

## v0.11.0 (2016-01-21)

* Enhancements
  * Rely on DBConnection. This means better performance by copying less data between processes, faster encoding/decoding, support for transactions, `after_connect` hooks, connection backoff, logging, prepared queries, the ability to use both Poolboy and Sojourn as pools out of the box, and more

* Backwards incompatible change
  * Connection API from `Postgrex.Connection` has been moved to `Postgrex`
  * Notifications API from `Postgrex.Connection` has been moved to `Postgrex.Notifications`

## v0.10.0 (2015-11-17)

* Enhancements
  * Improve error message on encoding/decoding failures
  * Add network types such as: `inet`, `cidr` and `macaddr`
  * Improve TCP error messages
  * Support `PGPORT` environment variable
  * Improve decoding performance by caching extension information
  * Improve query performance by decoding in the client process hence not blocking the connection
  * Raise if number of parameters to query is wrong

* Bug fixes
  * Correctly handle errors in connection initialization with `sync_connect: true`
  * Do not fail on custom error codes
  * Correctly handle large number of parameters, also fixes some protocol issues where unsigned integers were treated as signed

## v0.9.1 (2015-07-14)

* Enhancements
  * Revert client side decoding as affects performance negatively (around 15% slower)
  * Cast floats and integers to decimal if a decimal is requested

## v0.9.0 (2015-07-12)

* Enhancements
  * Cached type bootstrapping for less memory usage and faster connection set up
  * The result set is now decoded in the calling process to reduce time spent in the connection process
  * Add a `decode: :manual` option to `Postgrex.query/4` and the function `Postgrex.decode/2` for manually decoding the result
  * Add `:sync_connect` option to `Postgrex.start_link/1`

* Bug fixes
  * Correctly handle extension types created inside schemas

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Each row in `Postgrex.Result.rows` is now a list of columns instead of a tuple

## v0.8.4 (2015-06-24)

* Bug fixes
  * Fix version detection

## v0.8.3 (2015-06-22)

* Enhancements
  * Add `Postgrex.Extensions.JSON` extension for `json` and `jsonb` types
  * Set suitable TCP buffer size automatically

## v0.8.2 (2015-06-01)

* Enhancements
  * Add `:socket_options` option to `Postgrex.start_link/1`
  * Improved performance regarding binary handling
  * Add hstore support

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Remove `:async_connect` option and make it the default

## v0.8.1 (2015-04-09)

* Enhancements
  * Keep the postgres error code in `:pg_code`
  * Support oid types and all its aliases (regclass etc)

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Rename `:msec` field to `:usec` on `Postgrex.Time` and `Postgrex.Timestamp`

* Bug fixes
  * Fix numeric encoding for fractional numbers with less digits than the numeric base
  * Support encoding `timetz` type
  * Fix time and timestamp off-by-one bounds

## v0.8.0 (2015-02-26)

* Enhancements
  * Add extensions
  * Encode/decode ranges generically
  * Add bounds when encoding integer types to error instead of overflowing the integer
  * Log unhandled Postgres errors (when it cant be replied to anyone)
  * Add support for enum types
  * Add support for citext type
  * Add microseconds to times and timestamps
  * Add the ability to rebootstrap types for an open connection

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Remove the support for type-hinted queries
  * Remove encoder, decoder and formatter functions, use extensions instead
  * Use structs for dates, times, timestamps, interval and ranges
  * Change the default timeout for all operations to 5000ms
  * Show Postgres error codes as their names instead

## v0.7.0 (2015-01-20)

* Enhancements
  * Add asynchronous notifications through `listen` and `unlisten`
  * Add support for range types
  * Add support for uuid type
  * Add `:async_connect` option to `start_link/1`

* Bug fixes
  * Fix encoding `nil` values in arrays and composite types

## v0.6.0 (2014-09-07)

* Enhancements
  * Queries can be constructed of `iodata`
  * Support "type hinted" queries to save one client-server round trip which will reduce query latency

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * `Postgrex.Error` `postgres` field is converted from keyword list to map
  * `Postgrex.Connect.query` `params` parameter is no longer optional (pass an empty list if query has no parameters)
  * The `timeout` parameter for all functions have been moved to a keyword list with the key `:timeout`

## v0.5.5 (2014-08-20)

* Enhancements
  * Reduce the amount of intermediary binaries constructed with the help of `iodata`

## v0.5.4 (2014-08-04)

## v0.5.3 (2014-07-13)

## v0.5.2 (2014-06-18)

## v0.5.1 (2014-05-24)

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * `Postgrex.Error` exception converted to struct

## v0.5.0 (2014-05-01)

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * `Postgrex.Result` and `Postgrex.TypeInfo` converted to structs

## v0.4.2 (2014-04-21)

* Enhancements
  * Add timeouts to all synchronous calls. When a timeout is hit an exit error will be raised in the caller process and the connection process will exit
  * Add automatic fallback to environment variables `PGUSER`, `PGHOST` and `PGPASS`

## v0.4.0 (2014-01-16)

* Enhancements
  * Numerics decode and encode to Decimal

## v0.3.1 (2014-01-15)

* Enhancements
  * Compact state before printing to logs and hide password
  * Concurrency support, safe to use connection from multiple processes concurrently

## v0.3.0 (2013-12-16)

* Bug fixes
  * Don't try to decode values of text format

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Types are stored as binaries instead of atoms, update your custom encoders and decoders

## v0.2.1 (2013-12-10)

* Enhancements
  * Add support for SSL

* Bug fixes
  * Fix decoding of unknown type when using custom decoder

## v0.2.0 (2013-11-14)

* Enhancements
  * Floats handles NaN, inf and -inf
  * Add support for numerics
  * Custom encoders and decoders works on elements in arrays
  * Add support for composite types
  * Add functions that raise on error

* Bug fixes
  * INSERT query works with extended query parameters
  * Return proper `num_rows` on PostgreSQL 8.4
  * Fix race condition

* Backwards incompatible changes
  * Simplify custom decoding and encoding with default function

## v0.1.0 (2013-10-14)

First release!