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-== v1.4.4 [2022-10-11] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## v1.4.6 [2023-02-26] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
 
-- Revert to let libpq do the host iteration while connecting. #485
+- Add japanese README file. [#502](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/502)
+- Improve `discard_results` to not block under memory pressure. [#500](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/500)
+- Use a dedicated error class `PG::LostCopyState` for errors due to another query within `copy_data` and mention that it's probably due to another query.
+  Previously the "no COPY in progress" `PG::Error` was less specific. [#499](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/499)
+- Make sure an error in `put_copy_end` of `copy_data`  doesn't lose the original exception.
+- Disable nonblocking mode while large object calls. [#498](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/498)
+  Since pg-1.3.0 libpq's "lo_*" calls failed when a bigger amount of data was transferred.
+  This specifically forced the `active_storage-postgresql` gem to use pg-1.2.3.
+- Add rdoc options to gemspec, so that "gem install" generates complete offline documentation.
+- Add binary Windows gems for Ruby 3.2.
+- Update Windows fat binary gem to PostgreSQL-15.2 and OpenSSL-3.0.8.
+
+
+## v1.4.5 [2022-11-17] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+
+- Return the libpq default port when blank in conninfo. [#492](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/492)
+- Add PG::DEF_PGPORT constant and use it in specs. [#492](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Handle multiple hosts in the connection string, where only one host has writable session. [#476](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/476)
+- Add some useful information to PG::Connection#inspect. [#487](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/487)
+- Support new pgresult_stream_any API in sequel_pg-1.17.0. [#481](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/481)
 - Update Windows fat binary gem to PostgreSQL-14.5.
 
 
-== v1.4.3 [2022-08-09] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## 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
+- Avoid memory bloat possible in put_copy_data in pg-1.4.0 to 1.4.2. [#473](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/473)
+- Use Encoding::BINARY for JOHAB, removing some useless code. [#472](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/472)
 
 
-== v1.4.2 [2022-07-27] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## v1.4.2 [2022-07-27] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Properly handle empty host parameter when connecting. #471
+- Properly handle empty host parameter when connecting. [#471](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/471)
 - Update Windows fat binary gem to OpenSSL-1.1.1q.
 
 
-== v1.4.1 [2022-06-24] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## 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
+- Fix another ruby-2.7 keyword warning. [#465](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/465)
+- Allow PG::Error to be created without arguments. [#466](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/466)
 
 
-== v1.4.0 [2022-06-20] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## 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
+- Add PG::Connection#hostaddr, present since PostgreSQL-12. [#453](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/453)
+- Add PG::Connection.conninfo_parse to wrap PQconninfoParse. [#453](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Try IPv6 and IPv4 addresses, if DNS resolves to both. [#452](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/452)
+- Re-add block-call semantics to PG::Connection.new accidently removed in pg-1.3.0. [#454](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/454)
+- Handle client error after all data consumed in #copy_data for output. [#455](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/455)
+- Avoid spurious keyword argument warning on Ruby 2.7. [#456](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/456)
+- Change connection setup to respect connect_timeout parameter. [#459](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/459)
+- Fix indefinite hang in case of connection error on Windows [#458](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/458)
+- Set connection attribute of PG::Error in various places where it was missing. [#461](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/461)
+- Fix transaction leak on early break/return. [#463](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Don't flush at each put_copy_data call, but flush at get_result. [#462](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/462)
 
 
-== v1.3.5 [2022-03-31] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## v1.3.5 [2022-03-31] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Handle PGRES_COMMAND_OK in pgresult_stream_any. #447
+- Handle PGRES_COMMAND_OK in pgresult_stream_any. [#447](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/447)
   Fixes usage when trying to stream the result of a procedure call that returns no results.
 
 Enhancements:
@@ -67,74 +91,74 @@ Enhancements:
   Keeping define_default_types for compatibility.
 - BasicTypeRegistry: return self instead of objects by accident.
   This allows call chaining.
-- Add some April fun. #449
+- Add some April fun. [#449](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/449)
 
 Documentation:
 - Refine documentation of conn.socket_io and conn.connect_poll
 
 
-== v1.3.4 [2022-03-10] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## v1.3.4 [2022-03-10] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Don't leak IO in case of connection errors. #439
+- Don't leak IO in case of connection errors. [#439](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Fix a performance regession in conn.get_result noticed in single row mode. [#442](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/442)
+- Fix occasional error Errno::EBADF (Bad file descriptor) while connecting. [#444](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/444)
+- Fix compatibility of res.stream_each* methods with Fiber.scheduler. [#446](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/446)
+- Remove FL_TEST and FL_SET, which are MRI-internal. [#437](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/437)
 
 Enhancements:
 
-- Allow pgresult_stream_any to be used by sequel_pg. #443
+- Allow pgresult_stream_any to be used by sequel_pg. [#443](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/443)
 
 
-== v1.3.3 [2022-02-22] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## 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
+- Fix omission of the third digit of IPv4 addresses in connection URI. [#435](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/435)
+- Fix wrong permission of certs/larskanis-2022.pem in the pg-1.3.2.gem. [#432](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/432)
 
 
-== v1.3.2 [2022-02-14] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
+## v1.3.2 [2022-02-14] Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Cancel only active query after failing transaction. #430
+- Cancel only active query after failing transaction. [#430](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Fix String objects with non-applied encoding when using COPY or record decoders. [#427](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Add a check for PGRES_PIPELINE_SYNC, to make sure the library version and the header files are PostgreSQL-14+. [#429](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/429)
 
 
-== v1.3.1 [2022-02-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v1.3.1 [2022-02-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Fix wrong handling of socket writability on Windows introduced in #417.
+- Fix wrong handling of socket writability on Windows introduced in [#417](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Fix error in PG.version_string(true). [#419](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/419)
+- Fix a regression in pg 1.3.0 where Ruby 2.x busy-looping any fractional seconds for every wait. [#420](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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>
+## v1.3.0 [2022-01-20] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Install Enhancements:
-- Print some install help if libpq wasn't found. #396
+- Print some install help if libpq wasn't found. [#396](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- 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](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/373)
+- Fall back to pkg-config if pg_config is not found. [#380](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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.
@@ -142,8 +166,8 @@ Install Enhancements:
   - 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 full compatibility to Fiber.scheduler introduced in Ruby-3.0. [#397](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/397)
+  - Add async_connect and async_send methods and add specific specs for Fiber.scheduler [#342](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/342)
   - Add async_get_result and async_get_last_result
   - Add async_get_copy_data
   - Implement async_put_copy_data/async_put_copy_end
@@ -157,35 +181,35 @@ API Enhancements:
   - 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 support for pipeline mode of PostgreSQL-14. [#401](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/401)
+- Allow specification of multiple hosts in PostgreSQL URI. [#387](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Add PG::BasicTypeMapForQueries::BinaryData for encoding of bytea columns. [#348](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/348)
+- Reduce time to build coder maps and permit to reuse them for several type maps per PG::BasicTypeRegistry::CoderMapsBundle.new(conn) . [#376](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Convert all PG classes implemented in C to TypedData objects. [#349](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/349)
+- Support ObjectSpace.memsize_of(obj) on all classes implemented in C. [#393](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/393)
+- Make all PG objects implemented in C memory moveable and therefore GC.compact friendly. [#349](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Add better support for logical replication. [#339](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- On Windows use a specialized wait function as a workaround for very poor performance of rb_io_wait(). [#416](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Fix Connection#transaction to no longer block on interrupts, for instance when pressing Ctrl-C and cancel a running query. [#390](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/390)
+- Avoid casting of OIDs to fix compat with Redshift database. [#369](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Sporadic Errno::ENOTSOCK when using conn.socket_io on Windows [#398](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/398)
 
 Deprecated:
 - Add deprecation warning to PG::BasicTypeRegistry.register_type and siblings.
@@ -200,37 +224,37 @@ Repository:
 - Add Github Actions CI and testing of source and binary gems.
 
 
-== v1.2.3 [2020-03-18] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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
+  a typemap after GC.compact. [#327](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/327)
+- Fix possible segfault in `PG::TypeMapByClass` after GC.compact. [#328](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/328)
 
 
-== v1.2.2 [2020-01-06] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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>
+## 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>
+## 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
+  Most of the issues from https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg have been migrated. [#43](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/43)
 
 API enhancements:
-- Add PG::Result#field_name_type= and siblings to allow symbols to be used as field names. #306
+- Add PG::Result#field_name_type= and siblings to allow symbols to be used as field names. [#306](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/306)
 - Add new methods for error reporting:
   - PG::Connection#set_error_context_visibility
   - PG::Result#verbose_error_message
@@ -239,29 +263,29 @@ API enhancements:
 - 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::TextEncoder::Record and PG::TextDecoder::Record for en/decoding of Composite Types. [#258](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/258), [#36](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Exchange sprintf based float encoder by very fast own implementation with more natural format. [#301](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Accept Integer and Float as input to TextEncoder::Numeric . [#310](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+  This removes PG::Result.allocate and PG::Result.new, which were callable but without any practical use. [#42](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- 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](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+  It was incorrectly labeled "BSD-3-Clause". [#40](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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.
@@ -275,7 +299,7 @@ Deprecated:
 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 tainted objects. [#307](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/307)
 - Remove support of ruby-2.0 and 2.1. Minimum is ruby-2.2 now.
 
 Documentation:
@@ -286,30 +310,30 @@ Documentation:
 - Fix documentation of many constants
 
 
-== v1.1.4 [2019-01-08] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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>
+## 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>
+## 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>
+## 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>
+## 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.
@@ -335,7 +359,7 @@ Result retrieval enhancements:
 - 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
+- Replace Ruby code by a faster C implementation of the SimpleDecoder's timestamp decode functions. github [#20](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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.
@@ -350,12 +374,12 @@ Source code enhancements:
 - Fix headers and permission bits of various repository files.
 
 Bugfixes:
-- Properly decode array with prepended dimensions. #272
+- Properly decode array with prepended dimensions. [#272](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Array-Decoder: Avoid leaking memory when an Exception is raised while parsing. Fixes [#279](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/279)
 
 
-== v1.0.0 [2018-01-10] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v1.0.0 [2018-01-10] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Deprecated:
 - Deprecate Ruby older than 2.2.
@@ -372,16 +396,16 @@ Enhancements:
   OpenSSL 1.1.0g.
 
 Bugfixes:
-- Fix URI detection for connection strings. #265 (thanks to jjoos)
+- Fix URI detection for connection strings. [#265](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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
+- Add PostgreSQL version since when the given function is supported. [#263](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/263)
 - Better documentation to `encoder` and `decoder` arguments of COPY related methods.
 
 
-== v0.21.0 [2017-06-12] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.21.0 [2017-06-12] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 - Move add_dll_directory to the Runtime namespace for newest versions
@@ -397,7 +421,7 @@ 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>
+## v0.20.0 [2017-03-10] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 - Update error codes to PostgreSQL-9.6
@@ -406,22 +430,22 @@ Enhancements:
 - Add support for RubyInstaller2 to Windows binary gems.
 
 Bugfixes:
-- Use secure JSON methods for JSON (de)serialisation. #248
+- Use secure JSON methods for JSON (de)serialisation. [#248](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/248)
 - Fix Result#inspect on a cleared result.
-- Fix test case that failed on Ruby-2.4. #255
+- Fix test case that failed on Ruby-2.4. [#255](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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>
+## 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
+  to the server. [#231](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/231)
 - Add PostgreSQL-9.5 functions PQsslInUse(), PQsslAttribute()
   and PQsslAttributeNames().
 - Various documentation fixes and improvements.
@@ -434,24 +458,24 @@ Enhancements:
 - Allow build from git per bundler.
 
 Bugfixes:
-- Release GVL while calling PQsetClientEncoding(). #245
-- Add __EXTENSIONS__ to Solaris/SmartOS for Ruby >= 2.3.x. #236
+- Release GVL while calling PQsetClientEncoding(). [#245](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/245)
+- Add __EXTENSIONS__ to Solaris/SmartOS for Ruby >= 2.3.x. [#236](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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>
+## 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
+- Fixing compilation problems with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. GH [#10](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/10)
+- Avoid name clash with xcode and jemalloc. PR[#22](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/22), PR[#23](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/23)
 
 Bugfixes:
 - Avoid segfault, when quote_ident or TextEncoder::Identifier
-  is called with Array containing non-strings. #226
+  is called with Array containing non-strings. [#226](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/226)
 
 
-== v0.18.3 [2015-09-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.18.3 [2015-09-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 - Use rake-compiler-dock to build windows gems easily.
@@ -459,12 +483,12 @@ Enhancements:
 
 Bugfixes:
 - Fix data type resulting in wrong base64 encoding.
-- Change instance_of checks to kind_of for subclassing. #220
+- Change instance_of checks to kind_of for subclassing. [#220](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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>
+## v0.18.2 [2015-05-14] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -474,22 +498,22 @@ Enhancements:
 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]
+- Revert addition of PG::Connection#hostaddr [[#202](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/202)].
+- Fix decoding of fractional timezones and timestamps [[#203](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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>
+## v0.18.1 [2015-01-05] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
-Correct the minimum compatible Ruby version to 1.9.3. #199
+Correct the minimum compatible Ruby version to 1.9.3. [#199](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/199)
 
 
-== v0.18.0 [2015-01-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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
+- Fix OID to Integer mapping (it is unsigned now). [#187](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/187)
+- Fix possible segfault in conjunction with notice receiver. [#185](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/185)
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -508,7 +532,7 @@ Enhancements:
 
 
 
-== v0.17.1 [2013-12-18] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.17.1 [2013-12-18] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
@@ -524,11 +548,11 @@ Documentation fixes:
 - Fix documentation for PG::Connection::conndefaults.
 
 
-== v0.17.0 [2013-09-15] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.17.0 [2013-09-15] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
-- Fix crash by calling PQsend* and PQisBusy without GVL (#171).
+- Fix crash by calling PQsend* and PQisBusy without GVL ([#171](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/171)).
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -539,18 +563,18 @@ Enhancements:
   to stack method calls.
 
 
-== v0.16.0 [2013-07-22] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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).
+  This fixes build on AIX (Github [#7](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/7)) and Solaris ([#164](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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).
+  and escape_identifier ([#163](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/163)).
+- Use nil as PG::Error#result in case of a NULL-result from libpq ([#166](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/166)).
 - Recalculate the timeout of conn#wait_for_notify and conn#block in case
   of socket events that require re-runs of select().
 
@@ -560,20 +584,20 @@ Documentation fixes:
 
 Enhancements:
 
-- Add unique exception classes for each PostgreSQL error type (#5).
-- Return result of the block in conn#transaction instead of nil (#158).
+- Add unique exception classes for each PostgreSQL error type ([#5](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/5)).
+- Return result of the block in conn#transaction instead of nil ([#158](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/158)).
 - Allow 'rake compile' and 'rake gem' on non mercurial repos.
-- Add support for PG_DIAG_*_NAME error fields of PostgreSQL-9.3 (#161).
+- Add support for PG_DIAG_*_NAME error fields of PostgreSQL-9.3 ([#161](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/161)).
 
 
-== v0.15.1 [2013-04-08] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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>
+## v0.15.0 [2013-03-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes:
 
@@ -598,7 +622,7 @@ Enhancements:
 - 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 an example of how to insert array data using a prepared statement ([#145](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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.
@@ -611,11 +635,11 @@ Specs:
 - Avoid fork() in specs to allow usage on Windows and JRuby.
 
 
-== v0.14.1 [2012-09-02] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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
+- Fix stack overflow bug in PG::Result#values and #column_values ([#135](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/135)). Thanks
   to everyone who reported the bug, and Lars Kanis especially for figuring out
   the problem.
 
@@ -628,13 +652,13 @@ 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)
+- Add some documentation to PG::Result#fnumber (fix for [#139](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/139))
 
 
-== v0.14.0 [2012-06-17] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.14.0 [2012-06-17] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes:
-  #47, #104
+  [#47](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/47), [#104](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/104)
 
 
 New Methods for PostgreSQL 9 and async API support:
@@ -659,20 +683,20 @@ 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>
+## 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>
+## 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)
+  a fatal error ([#110](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/110)).
+- Added missing BSDL license file ([#108](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/108))
 
 
-== v0.13.0 [2012-02-09] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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.
@@ -701,23 +725,23 @@ Bugfixes:
 
 
 
-== v0.12.2 [2012-01-03] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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)
+  implementations ([#97](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/97) and [#98](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/98)). Thanks to Lars Kanis for the patch.
+- Encode error messages with the connection's encoding under 1.9 ([#96](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/96))
 
 
-== v0.12.1 [2011-12-14] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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).
+  (fixes [#95](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/95)).
 
 
-== v0.12.0 [2011-12-07] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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.
@@ -728,7 +752,7 @@ Bugfixes:
   (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
+- Fixes for [#66](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/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)
@@ -737,7 +761,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 - Updates for the Win32 binary gem builds (Lars Kanis)
 
 
-== v0.11.0 [2011-02-09] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.11.0 [2011-02-09] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -746,19 +770,19 @@ Enhancements:
   the patch.
 
 
-== v0.10.1 [2011-01-19] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## 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)
+* Fix compatibility with versions of PostgreSQL without PQgetCancel. (fixes [#36](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/36))
+* Fix require for natively-compiled extension under Windows. (fixes [#55](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/55))
+* Change rb_yield_splat() to rb_yield_values() for compatibility with Rubinius. (fixes [#54](https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/54))
 
 
-== v0.10.0 [2010-12-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
+## v0.10.0 [2010-12-01] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -770,11 +794,11 @@ 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>
+## v0.9.0 [2010-02-28] Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
 
 Bugfixes.
 
-== v0.8.0 [2009-03-28] Jeff Davis <davis.jeffrey@gmail.com>
+## v0.8.0 [2009-03-28] Jeff Davis <davis.jeffrey@gmail.com>
 
 Bugfixes, better Windows support.