node-postgres/NEWS.md

All major and minor releases are briefly explained below.

For richer information consult the commit log on github with referenced pull requests.

We do not include break-fix version release in this file.

v2.1

• Add support for SSL connections in JavaScript driver
• this means you can connect to heroku postgres locally without the native bindings!
• Add field metadata to result object
• Add ability for rows to be returned as arrays instead of objects

v2.0

• Properly handle various PostgreSQL to JavaScript type conversions to avoid data loss:

PostgreSQL | pg@v2.0 JavaScript | pg@v1.0 JavaScript
--------------------------------|----------------
float4     | number (float)     | string
float8     | number (float)     | string
int8       | string             | number (int)
numeric    | string             | number (float)
decimal    | string             | number (float)

For more information see https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/pull/353 If you are unhappy with these changes you can always override the built in type parsing fairly easily.

v1.3

• Make client_encoding configurable and optional

v1.2

• return field metadata on result object: access via result.fields[i].name/dataTypeID

v1.1

• built in support for JSON data type for PostgreSQL Server @ v9.2.0 or greater

v1.0

• remove deprecated functionality
  • Callback function passed to pg.connect now requires 3 arguments
  • Client#pauseDrain() / Client#resumeDrain removed
  • numeric, decimal, and float data types no longer parsed into float before being returned. Will be returned from query results as String

v0.15.0

• client now emits end when disconnected from back-end server
• if client is disconnected in the middle of a query, query receives an error

v0.14.0

• add deprecation warnings in prep for v1.0
• fix read/write failures in native module under node v0.9.x