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+== v1.4.5 [2022-11-17] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+- Return the libpq default port when blank in conninfo. #492
+- Add PG::DEF_PGPORT constant and use it in specs. #492
+- Fix name resolution when empty or `nil` port is given.
+- Update error codes to PostgreSQL-15.
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to PostgreSQL-15.1 AND OpenSSL-1.1.1s.
+
+
+== v1.4.4 [2022-10-11] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+- Revert to let libpq do the host iteration while connecting. #485
+  Ensure that parameter `connect_timeout` is still respected.
+- Handle multiple hosts in the connection string, where only one host has writable session. #476
+- Add some useful information to PG::Connection#inspect. #487
+- Support new pgresult_stream_any API in sequel_pg-1.17.0. #481
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to PostgreSQL-14.5.
+
+
+== v1.4.3 [2022-08-09] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+- Avoid memory bloat possible in put_copy_data in pg-1.4.0 to 1.4.2. #473
+- Use Encoding::BINARY for JOHAB, removing some useless code. #472
+
+
+== v1.4.2 [2022-07-27] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Properly handle empty host parameter when connecting. #471
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to OpenSSL-1.1.1q.
+
+
+== v1.4.1 [2022-06-24] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix another ruby-2.7 keyword warning. #465
+- Allow PG::Error to be created without arguments. #466
+
+
+== v1.4.0 [2022-06-20] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Added:
+
+- Add PG::Connection#hostaddr, present since PostgreSQL-12. #453
+- Add PG::Connection.conninfo_parse to wrap PQconninfoParse. #453
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Try IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, if DNS resolves to both. #452
+- Re-add block-call semantics to PG::Connection.new accidently removed in pg-1.3.0. #454
+- Handle client error after all data consumed in #copy_data for output. #455
+- Avoid spurious keyword argument warning on Ruby 2.7. #456
+- Change connection setup to respect connect_timeout parameter. #459
+- Fix indefinite hang in case of connection error on Windows #458
+- Set connection attribute of PG::Error in various places where it was missing. #461
+- Fix transaction leak on early break/return. #463
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to OpenSSL-1.1.1o and PostgreSQL-14.4.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Don't flush at each put_copy_data call, but flush at get_result. #462
+
+
+== v1.3.5 [2022-03-31] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Handle PGRES_COMMAND_OK in pgresult_stream_any. #447
+  Fixes usage when trying to stream the result of a procedure call that returns no results.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Rename BasicTypeRegistry#define_default_types to #register_default_types to use a more consistent terminology.
+  Keeping define_default_types for compatibility.
+- BasicTypeRegistry: return self instead of objects by accident.
+  This allows call chaining.
+- Add some April fun. #449
+
+Documentation:
+- Refine documentation of conn.socket_io and conn.connect_poll
+
+
+== v1.3.4 [2022-03-10] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Don't leak IO in case of connection errors. #439
+  Previously it was kept open until the PG::Connection was garbage collected.
+- Fix a performance regession in conn.get_result noticed in single row mode. #442
+- Fix occasional error Errno::EBADF (Bad file descriptor) while connecting. #444
+- Fix compatibility of res.stream_each* methods with Fiber.scheduler. #446
+- Remove FL_TEST and FL_SET, which are MRI-internal. #437
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Allow pgresult_stream_any to be used by sequel_pg. #443
+
+
+== v1.3.3 [2022-02-22] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix omission of the third digit of IPv4 addresses in connection URI. #435
+- Fix wrong permission of certs/larskanis-2022.pem in the pg-1.3.2.gem. #432
+
+
+== v1.3.2 [2022-02-14] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Cancel only active query after failing transaction. #430
+  This avoids an incompatibility with pgbouncer since pg-1.3.0.
+- Fix String objects with non-applied encoding when using COPY or record decoders. #427
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to PostgreSQL-14.2.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Improve extconf.rb checks to reduces the number of compiler calls.
+- Add a check for PGRES_PIPELINE_SYNC, to make sure the library version and the header files are PostgreSQL-14+. #429
+
+
+== v1.3.1 [2022-02-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix wrong handling of socket writability on Windows introduced in #417.
+  This caused starvation in conn.put_copy_data.
+- Fix error in PG.version_string(true). #419
+- Fix a regression in pg 1.3.0 where Ruby 2.x busy-looping any fractional seconds for every wait. #420
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Raise an error when conn.copy_data is used in nonblocking mode.
+
+
+== v1.3.0 [2022-01-20] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Install Enhancements:
+- Print some install help if libpq wasn't found. #396
+  This should help to pick the necessary package without googling.
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to OpenSSL-1.1.1m and PostgreSQL-14.1.
+- Add binary Windows gems for Ruby 3.0 and 3.1.
+- Make the library path of libpq available in ruby as PG::POSTGRESQL_LIB_PATH and add it to the search paths on Windows similar to +rpath+ on Unix systems. #373
+- Fall back to pkg-config if pg_config is not found. #380
+- Add option to extconf.rb to disable nogvl-wrapping of libpq functions.
+  All methods (except PG::Connection.ping) are nonblocking now, so that GVL unlock is in theory no longer necessary.
+  However it can have some advantage in concurrency, so that GVL unlock is still enabled by default.
+  Use:
+  - gem inst pg -- --disable-gvl-unlock
+
+API Enhancements:
+- Add full compatibility to Fiber.scheduler introduced in Ruby-3.0. #397
+  - Add async_connect and async_send methods and add specific specs for Fiber.scheduler #342
+  - Add async_get_result and async_get_last_result
+  - Add async_get_copy_data
+  - Implement async_put_copy_data/async_put_copy_end
+  - Implement async_reset method using the nonblocking libpq API
+  - Add async_set_client_encoding which is compatible to scheduler
+  - Add async_cancel as a nonblocking version of conn#cancel
+  - Add async_encrypt_password
+  - Run Connection.ping in a second thread.
+  - Make discard_results scheduler friendly
+  - Do all socket waiting through the conn.socket_io object.
+  - Avoid PG.connect blocking while address resolution by automatically providing the +hostaddr+ parameter and resolving in Ruby instead of libpq.
+  - On Windows Fiber.scheduler support requires Ruby-3.1+.
+    It is also only partly usable since may ruby IO methods are not yet scheduler aware on Windows.
+- Add support for pipeline mode of PostgreSQL-14. #401
+- Allow specification of multiple hosts in PostgreSQL URI. #387
+- Add new method conn.backend_key - used to implement our own cancel method.
+
+Type cast enhancements:
+- Add PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries::BinaryData for encoding of bytea columns. #348
+- Reduce time to build coder maps and permit to reuse them for several type maps per PG::BasicTypeRegistry::CoderMapsBundle.new(conn) . #376
+- Make BasicTypeRegistry a class and use a global default instance of it.
+  Now a local type registry can be instanciated and given to the type map, to avoid changing shared global states.
+- Allow PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries to take a Proc as callback for undefined types.
+
+Other Enhancements:
+- Convert all PG classes implemented in C to TypedData objects. #349
+- Support ObjectSpace.memsize_of(obj) on all classes implemented in C. #393
+- Make all PG objects implemented in C memory moveable and therefore GC.compact friendly. #349
+- Update errorcodes and error classes to PostgreSQL-14.0.
+- Add PG::CONNECTION_* constants for conn.status of newer PostgreSQL versions.
+- Add better support for logical replication. #339
+- Change conn.socket_io to read+write mode and to a BasicSocket object instead of IO.
+- Use rb_io_wait() and the conn.socket_io object if available for better compatibility to Fiber.scheduler .
+  Fall back to rb_wait_for_single_fd() on ruby < 3.0.
+- On Windows use a specialized wait function as a workaround for very poor performance of rb_io_wait(). #416
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Release GVL while calling PQping which is a blocking method, but it didn't release GVL so far.
+- Fix Connection#transaction to no longer block on interrupts, for instance when pressing Ctrl-C and cancel a running query. #390
+- Avoid casting of OIDs to fix compat with Redshift database. #369
+- Call conn.block before each conn.get_result call to avoid possible blocking in case of a slow network and multiple query results.
+- Sporadic Errno::ENOTSOCK when using conn.socket_io on Windows #398
+
+Deprecated:
+- Add deprecation warning to PG::BasicTypeRegistry.register_type and siblings.
+
+Removed:
+- Remove support of ruby-2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. Minimum is ruby-2.5 now.
+- Remove support for PostgreSQL-9.2. Minimum is PostgreSQL-9.3 now.
+- Remove constant PG::REVISION, which was broken since pg-1.1.4.
+
+Repository:
+- Replace Hoe by Bundler for gem packaging
+- Add Github Actions CI and testing of source and binary gems.
+
+
+== v1.2.3 [2020-03-18] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix possible segfault at `PG::Coder#encode`, `decode` or their implicit calls through
+  a typemap after GC.compact. #327
+- Fix possible segfault in `PG::TypeMapByClass` after GC.compact. #328
+
+
+== v1.2.2 [2020-01-06] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Add a binary gem for Ruby 2.7.
+
+
+== v1.2.1 [2020-01-02] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Added internal API for sequel_pg compatibility.
+
+
+== v1.2.0 [2019-12-20] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Repository:
+- Our primary repository has been moved to Github https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg .
+  Most of the issues from https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg have been migrated. #43
+
+API enhancements:
+- Add PG::Result#field_name_type= and siblings to allow symbols to be used as field names. #306
+- Add new methods for error reporting:
+  - PG::Connection#set_error_context_visibility
+  - PG::Result#verbose_error_message
+  - PG::Result#result_verbose_error_message (alias)
+- Update errorcodes and error classes to PostgreSQL-12.0.
+- New constants: PG_DIAG_SEVERITY_NONLOCALIZED, PQERRORS_SQLSTATE, PQSHOW_CONTEXT_NEVER, PQSHOW_CONTEXT_ERRORS, PQSHOW_CONTEXT_ALWAYS
+
+Type cast enhancements:
+- Add PG::TextEncoder::Record and PG::TextDecoder::Record for en/decoding of Composite Types. #258, #36
+- Add PG::BasicTypeRegistry.register_coder to register instances instead of classes.
+  This is useful to register parametrized en/decoders like PG::TextDecoder::Record .
+- Add PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries#encode_array_as= to switch between various interpretations of ruby arrays.
+- Add Time, Array<Time>, Array<BigDecimal> and Array<IPAddr> encoders to PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries
+- Exchange sprintf based float encoder by very fast own implementation with more natural format. #301
+- Define encode and decode methods only in en/decoders that implement it, so that they can be queried by respond_to? .
+- Improve PG::TypeMapByColumn#inspect
+- Accept Integer and Float as input to TextEncoder::Numeric . #310
+
+Other enhancements:
+- Allocate the data part and the ruby object of PG::Result in one step, so that we don't need to check for valid data.
+  This removes PG::Result.allocate and PG::Result.new, which were callable but without any practical use. #42
+- Make use of PQresultMemorySize() of PostgreSQL-12 and fall back to our internal estimator.
+- Improve performance of PG::Result#stream_each_tuple .
+- Store client encoding in data part of PG::Connection and PG::Result objects, so that we no longer use ruby's internal encoding bits. #280
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to OpenSSL-1.1.1d and PostgreSQL-12.1.
+- Add support for TruffleRuby. It is regularly tested as part of our CI.
+- Enable +frozen_string_literal+ in all pg's ruby files
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Update the license in gemspec to "BSD-2-Clause".
+  It was incorrectly labeled "BSD-3-Clause". #40
+- Respect PG::Coder#flags in PG::Coder#to_h.
+- Fix PG::Result memsize reporting after #clear.
+- Release field names to GC on PG::Result#clear.
+- Fix double free in PG::Result#stream_each_tuple when an exception is raised in the block.
+- Fix PG::Result#stream_each_tuple to deliver typemapped values.
+- Fix encoding of Array<unknown> with PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries
+
+Deprecated:
+- Add a deprecation warning to PG::Connection#socket .
+
+Removed:
+- Remove PG::Connection#guess_result_memsize= which was temporary added in pg-1.1.
+- Remove PG::Result.allocate and PG::Result.new (see enhancements).
+- Remove support of tainted objects. #307
+- Remove support of ruby-2.0 and 2.1. Minimum is ruby-2.2 now.
+
+Documentation:
+- Update description of connection params. See PG::Connection.new
+- Link many method descriptions to corresponding libpq's documentation.
+- Update sync_* and async_* query method descriptions and document the aliases.
+  The primary documentation is now at the async_* methods which are the default since pg-1.1.
+- Fix documentation of many constants
+
+
+== v1.1.4 [2019-01-08] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Fix PG::BinaryDecoder::Timestamp on 32 bit systems. # 284
+- Add new error-codes of PostgreSQL-11.
+- Add ruby-2.6 support for Windows fat binary gems and remove ruby-2.0 and 2.1.
+
+
+== v1.1.3 [2018-09-06] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Revert opimization that was sometimes causing EBADF in rb_wait_for_single_fd().
+
+
+== v1.1.2 [2018-08-28] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Don't generate aliases for JOHAB encoding.
+  This avoids linking to deprecated/private function rb_enc(db)_alias().
+
+
+== v1.1.1 [2018-08-27] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Reduce deprecation warnings to only one message per deprecation.
+
+
+== v1.1.0 [2018-08-24] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Deprecated (disable warnings per PG_SKIP_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1):
+- Forwarding conn.exec to conn.exec_params is deprecated.
+- Forwarding conn.exec_params to conn.exec is deprecated.
+- Forwarding conn.async_exec to conn.async_exec_params.
+- Forwarding conn.send_query to conn.send_query_params is deprecated.
+- Forwarding conn.async_exec_params to conn.async_exec is deprecated.
+
+PG::Connection enhancements:
+- Provide PG::Connection#sync_* and PG::Connection#async_* query methods for explicit calling synchronous or asynchronous libpq API.
+- Make PG::Connection#exec and siblings switchable between sync and async API per PG::Connection.async_api= and change the default to async flavors.
+- Add async flavors of exec_params, prepare, exec_prepared, describe_prepared and describe_portal.
+  They are identical to their synchronous counterpart, but make use of PostgreSQL's async API.
+- Replace `rb_thread_fd_select()` by faster `rb_wait_for_single_fd()` in `conn.block` and `conn.async_exec` .
+- Add PG::Connection#discard_results .
+- Raise an ArgumentError for strings containing zero bytes by #escape, #escape_literal, #escape_identifier, #quote_ident and PG::TextEncoder::Identifier. These methods previously truncated strings.
+
+Result retrieval enhancements:
+- Add PG::Result#tuple_values to retrieve all field values of a row as array.
+- Add PG::Tuple, PG::Result#tuple and PG::Result#stream_each_tuple .
+  PG::Tuple offers a way to lazy cast result values.
+- Estimate PG::Result size allocated by libpq and notify the garbage collector about it when running on Ruby-2.4 or newer.
+- Make the estimated PG::Result size available to ObjectSpace.memsize_of(result) .
+
+Type cast enhancements:
+- Replace Ruby code by a faster C implementation of the SimpleDecoder's timestamp decode functions. github #20
+- Interpret years with up to 7 digists and BC dates by timestamp decoder.
+- Add text timestamp decoders for UTC vs. local timezone variations.
+- Add text timestamp encoders for UTC timezone.
+- Add decoders for binary timestamps: PG::BinaryDecoder::Timestamp and variations.
+- Add PG::Coder#flags accessor to allow modifications of de- respectively encoder behaviour.
+- Add a flag to raise TypeError for invalid input values to PG::TextDecoder::Array .
+- Add a text decoder for inet/cidr written in C.
+- Add a numeric decoder written in C.
+- Ensure input text is zero terminated for text format in PG::Coder#decode .
+
+Source code enhancements:
+- Fix headers and permission bits of various repository files.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Properly decode array with prepended dimensions. #272
+  For now dimension decorations are ignored, but a correct Array is returned.
+- Array-Decoder: Avoid leaking memory when an Exception is raised while parsing. Fixes #279
+
+
+== v1.0.0 [2018-01-10] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Deprecated:
+- Deprecate Ruby older than 2.2.
+- Deprecate Connection#socket in favor of #socket_io.
+
+Removed:
+- Remove compatibility code for Ruby < 2.0 and PostgreSQL < 9.2.
+- Remove partial compatibility with Rubinius.
+- Remove top-level constants PGconn, PGresult, and PGError.
+
+Enhancements:
+- Update error codes to PostgreSQL-10
+- Update Windows binary gems to Ruby-2.5, PostgreSQL 10.1 and
+  OpenSSL 1.1.0g.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Fix URI detection for connection strings. #265 (thanks to jjoos)
+- MINGW: Workaround segfault due to GCC linker error in conjunction with MSVC.
+  This happens when linking to PostgreSQL-10.0-x64 from EnterpriseDB.
+
+Documentation fixes:
+- Add PostgreSQL version since when the given function is supported. #263
+- Better documentation to `encoder` and `decoder` arguments of COPY related methods.
+
+
+== v0.21.0 [2017-06-12] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+- Move add_dll_directory to the Runtime namespace for newest versions
+  of RubyInstaller.
+- Deprecate PGconn, PGresult, and PGError top-level constants; a warning
+  will be output the first time one of them is used. They will be
+  removed in the upcoming 1.0 release.
+
+Documentation fixes:
+- Update the docs for PG::Result#cmd_tuples
+
+New Samples:
+- Add an example of the nicer #copy_data way of doing `COPY`.
+
+
+== v0.20.0 [2017-03-10] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+- Update error codes to PostgreSQL-9.6
+- Update Windows binary gems to Ruby-2.4, PostgreSQL 9.6.1 and
+  OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
+- Add support for RubyInstaller2 to Windows binary gems.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Use secure JSON methods for JSON (de)serialisation. #248
+- Fix Result#inspect on a cleared result.
+- Fix test case that failed on Ruby-2.4. #255
+
+Documentation fixes:
+- Talk about Integer instead of Fixnum.
+- Fix method signature of Coder#encode.
+
+
+== v0.19.0 [2016-09-21] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Deprecate Ruby 1.9
+
+Enhancements:
+- Respect and convert character encoding of all strings sent
+  to the server. #231
+- Add PostgreSQL-9.5 functions PQsslInUse(), PQsslAttribute()
+  and PQsslAttributeNames().
+- Various documentation fixes and improvements.
+- Add mechanism to build without pg_config:
+    gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=ignore
+- Update Windows binary gems to Ruby-2.3, PostgreSQL 9.5.4 and
+  OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
+- Add JSON coders and add them to BasicTypeMapForResults and
+  BasicTypeMapBasedOnResult
+- Allow build from git per bundler.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Release GVL while calling PQsetClientEncoding(). #245
+- Add __EXTENSIONS__ to Solaris/SmartOS for Ruby >= 2.3.x. #236
+- Fix wrong exception when running SQL while in Connection#copy_data
+  block for output
+
+
+== v0.18.4 [2015-11-13] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+- Fixing compilation problems with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. GH #10
+- Avoid name clash with xcode and jemalloc. PR#22, PR#23
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Avoid segfault, when quote_ident or TextEncoder::Identifier
+  is called with Array containing non-strings. #226
+
+
+== v0.18.3 [2015-09-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+- Use rake-compiler-dock to build windows gems easily.
+- Add CI-tests on appveyor and fix test cases accordingly.
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Fix data type resulting in wrong base64 encoding.
+- Change instance_of checks to kind_of for subclassing. #220
+- TextDecoder::Date returns an actual Ruby Date instead of a Time
+  (thanks to Thomas Ramfjord)
+
+
+== v0.18.2 [2015-05-14] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Allow URI connection string (thanks to Chris Bandy)
+- Allow Array type parameter to conn.quote_ident
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Speedups and fixes for PG::TextDecoder::Identifier and quoting behavior
+- Revert addition of PG::Connection#hostaddr [#202].
+- Fix decoding of fractional timezones and timestamps [#203]
+- Fixes for non-C99 compilers
+- Avoid possible symbol name clash when linking against static libpq.
+
+
+== v0.18.1 [2015-01-05] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Correct the minimum compatible Ruby version to 1.9.3. #199
+
+
+== v0.18.0 [2015-01-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Fix OID to Integer mapping (it is unsigned now). #187
+- Fix possible segfault in conjunction with notice receiver. #185
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Add an extensible type cast system.
+- A lot of performance improvements.
+- Return frozen String objects for result field names.
+- Add PG::Result#stream_each and #stream_each_row as fast helpers for
+  the single row mode.
+- Add Enumerator variant to PG::Result#each and #each_row.
+- Add PG::Connection#conninfo and #hostaddr.
+- Add PG.init_openssl and PG.init_ssl methods.
+- Add PG::Result.inspect
+- Force zero termination for all text strings that are given to libpq.
+  It raises an ArgumentError if the string contains a null byte.
+- Update Windows cross build to PostgreSQL 9.3.
+
+
+
+== v0.17.1 [2013-12-18] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix compatibility with signal handlers defined in Ruby. This reverts
+  cancellation of queries running on top of the blocking libpq API (like
+  Connection#exec) in case of signals. As an alternative the #async_exec
+  can be used, which is reverted to use the non-blocking API, again.
+- Wrap PQcancel to be called without GVL. It internally waits for
+  the canceling connection.
+
+Documentation fixes:
+
+- Fix documentation for PG::Connection::conndefaults.
+
+
+== v0.17.0 [2013-09-15] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix crash by calling PQsend* and PQisBusy without GVL (#171).
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Add method PG::Connection#copy_data.
+- Add a Gemfile to allow installation of dependencies with bundler.
+- Add compatibility with rake-compiler-dev-box.
+- Return self from PG::Result#check instead of nil. This allows
+  to stack method calls.
+
+
+== v0.16.0 [2013-07-22] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Avoid warnings about uninitialized instance variables.
+- Use a more standard method of adding library and include directories.
+  This fixes build on AIX (Github #7) and Solaris (#164).
+- Cancel the running query, if a thread is about to be killed (e.g. by CTRL-C).
+- Fix GVL issue with wait_for_notify/notifies and notice callbacks.
+- Set proper encoding on the string returned by quote_ident, escape_literal
+  and escape_identifier (#163).
+- Use nil as PG::Error#result in case of a NULL-result from libpq (#166).
+- Recalculate the timeout of conn#wait_for_notify and conn#block in case
+  of socket events that require re-runs of select().
+
+Documentation fixes:
+
+- Fix non working example for PGresult#error_field.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Add unique exception classes for each PostgreSQL error type (#5).
+- Return result of the block in conn#transaction instead of nil (#158).
+- Allow 'rake compile' and 'rake gem' on non mercurial repos.
+- Add support for PG_DIAG_*_NAME error fields of PostgreSQL-9.3 (#161).
+
+
+== v0.15.1 [2013-04-08] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Shorten application_name to avoid warnings about truncated identifier.
+
+
+== v0.15.0 [2013-03-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Fix segfault in PG::Result#field_values when called with non String value.
+- Fix encoding of messages delivered by notice callbacks.
+- Fix text encoding for Connection#wait_for_notify and Connection#notifies.
+- Fix 'Bad file descriptor' problems under Windows: wrong behaviour of
+  #wait_for_notify() and timeout handling of #block on Ruby 1.9.
+
+Documentation fixes:
+
+- conn#socket() can not be used with IO.for_fd() on Windows.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+- Tested under Ruby 2.0.0p0.
+- Add single row mode of PostgreSQL 9.2.
+- Set fallback_application_name to program name $0. Thanks to Will Leinweber
+  for the patch.
+- Release Ruby's GVL while calls to blocking libpq functions to allow better
+  concurrency in threaded applications.
+- Refactor different variants of waiting for the connection socket.
+- Make use of rb_thread_fd_select() on Ruby 1.9 and avoid deprecated
+  rb_thread_select().
+- Add an example of how to insert array data using a prepared statement (#145).
+- Add continuous integration tests on travis-ci.org.
+- Add PG::Result#each_row for iterative over result sets by row. Thanks to
+  Aaron Patterson for the patch.
+- Add a PG::Connection#socket_io method for fetching a (non-autoclosing) IO
+  object for the connection's socket.
+
+Specs:
+
+- Fix various specs to run on older PostgreSQL and Ruby versions.
+- Avoid fork() in specs to allow usage on Windows and JRuby.
+
+
+== v0.14.1 [2012-09-02] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Important bugfix:
+
+- Fix stack overflow bug in PG::Result#values and #column_values (#135). Thanks
+  to everyone who reported the bug, and Lars Kanis especially for figuring out
+  the problem.
+
+PostgreSQL 9.2 beta fixes:
+
+- Recognize PGRES_SINGLE_TUPLE as OK when checking PGresult (Jeremy Evans)
+
+Documentation fixes:
+
+- Add note about the usage scope of the result object received by the
+  #set_notice_receiver block. (Lars Kanis)
+- Add PGRES_COPY_BOTH to documentation of PG::Result#result_status. (Lars Kanis)
+- Add some documentation to PG::Result#fnumber (fix for #139)
+
+
+== v0.14.0 [2012-06-17] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+  #47, #104
+
+
+New Methods for PostgreSQL 9 and async API support:
+PG
+- ::library_version
+
+PG::Connection
+- ::ping
+- #escape_literal
+- #escape_identifier
+- #set_default_encoding
+
+PG::Result
+- #check
+
+
+New Samples:
+
+This release also comes with a collection of contributed sample scripts for
+doing resource-utilization reports, graphing database statistics,
+monitoring for replication lag, shipping WAL files for replication,
+automated tablespace partitioning, etc. See the samples/ directory.
+
+
+== v0.13.2 [2012-02-22] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Make builds against PostgreSQL earlier than 8.3 fail with a descriptive
+  message instead of a compile failure.
+
+
+== v0.13.1 [2012-02-12] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Made use of a finished PG::Connection raise a PG::Error instead of
+  a fatal error (#110).
+- Added missing BSDL license file (#108)
+
+
+== v0.13.0 [2012-02-09] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Reorganization of modules/classes to be better Ruby citizens (with backward-compatible aliases):
+- Created toplevel namespace 'PG' to correspond with the gem name.
+- Renamed PGconn to PG::Connection (with ::PGconn alias)
+- Renamed PGresult to PG::Result (with ::PGresult alias)
+- Renamed PGError to PG::Error (with ::PGError alias)
+- Declare all constants inside PG::Constants, then include them in
+  PG::Connection and PG::Result for backward-compatibility, and
+  in PG for convenience.
+- Split the extension source up by class/module.
+- Removed old compatibility code for PostgreSQL versions < 8.3
+
+Documentation:
+- Clarified licensing, updated to Ruby 1.9's license.
+- Merged authors list, added some missing people to the Contributor's
+  list.
+- Cleaned up the sample/ directory
+- Making contact info a bit clearer, link to the Google+ page and
+  the mailing list
+
+Enhancements:
+- Added a convenience method: PG.connect -> PG::Connection.new
+
+Bugfixes:
+- Fixed LATIN5-LATIN10 Postgres<->Ruby encoding conversions
+
+
+
+== v0.12.2 [2012-01-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Fix for the 1.8.7 breakage introduced by the st.h fix for alternative Ruby
+  implementations (#97 and #98). Thanks to Lars Kanis for the patch.
+- Encode error messages with the connection's encoding under 1.9 (#96)
+
+
+== v0.12.1 [2011-12-14] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- Made rake-compiler a dev dependency, as Rubygems doesn't use the Rakefile
+  for compiling the extension. Thanks to eolamey@bitbucket and Jeremy Evans
+  for pointing this out.
+- Added an explicit include for ruby/st.h for implementations that need it
+  (fixes #95).
+
+
+== v0.12.0 [2011-12-07] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+- PGconn#wait_for_notify
+  * send nil as the payload argument if the NOTIFY didn't have one.
+  * accept a nil argument for no timeout (Sequel support)
+  * Fixed API docs
+  * Taint and encode event name and payload
+- Handle errors while rb_thread_select()ing in PGconn#block.
+  (Brian Weaver).
+- Fixes for Win32 async queries (Rafał Bigaj)
+- Memory leak fixed: Closing opened WSA event. (rafal)
+- Fixes for #66 Win32 asynchronous queries hang on connection
+  error. (rafal)
+- Fixed a typo in PGconn#error_message's documentation
+- fixing unused variable warnings for ruby 1.9.3 (Aaron Patterson)
+- Build system bugfixes
+- Converted to Hoe
+- Updates for the Win32 binary gem builds (Lars Kanis)
+
+
+== v0.11.0 [2011-02-09] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+
+* Added a PGresult#values method to fetch all result rows as an Array of
+  Arrays. Thanks to Jason Yanowitz (JYanowitz at enovafinancial dot com) for
+  the patch.
+
+
+== v0.10.1 [2011-01-19] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+* Add an include guard for pg.h
+* Simplify the common case require of the ext
+* Include the extconf header
+* Fix compatibility with versions of PostgreSQL without PQgetCancel. (fixes #36)
+* Fix require for natively-compiled extension under Windows. (fixes #55)
+* Change rb_yield_splat() to rb_yield_values() for compatibility with Rubinius. (fixes #54)
+
+
+== v0.10.0 [2010-12-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Enhancements:
+
+* Added support for the payload of NOTIFY events (w/Mahlon E. Smith)
+* Updated the build system with Rubygems suggestions from RubyConf 2010
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+* Fixed issue with PGconn#wait_for_notify that caused it to miss notifications that happened after
+  the LISTEN but before the wait_for_notify.
+
+== v0.9.0 [2010-02-28] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+
+Bugfixes.
+
+== v0.8.0 [2009-03-28] Jeff Davis <davis.jeffrey@gmail.com>
+
+Bugfixes, better Windows support.
+