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History

LuaSQL 2.4.0 [30/Oct/2018]

• Added support in MySQL driver for opening a connection based on a Unix socket (thanks to rafis)
• Added connection ping method (thanks to rafis)
• Added Makefile for mingw (thanks to watercoldyi)
• Bug correction on retrieving varchar2 data (thanks to David Gao)

LuaSQL 2.3.5 [23/Feb/2017]

• Added some bug corrections and tested with Lua versions 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 (only Postgres, MySQL and SQLite were tested by the time of the launch)

LuaSQL 2.3.4 [30/Oct/2016]

• Bug correction in Postgres driver: escaping string bigger than the default buffer are now correctly handled

LuaSQL 2.3.3 [16/May/2016]

• Bug correction in Postgres driver: generating error message after failed connection (thanks to seanpringle)

LuaSQL 2.3.2 [14/May/2016]

• Bug correction in Postgres driver: freeing memory after failed connection opening (thanks to seanpringle)

LuaSQL 2.3.1 [28/Mar/2016]

• Improvement on the Postgres driver to avoid the need of compiler support of dynamic array allocation

LuaSQL 2.3.0 [23/May/2012]

• Added support to compile the drivers for all Lua 5.X versions (only Postgres, MySQL and SQLite were tested by the time of the launch)
• Correction on MySQL implementation to honor the close of the cursor when the last row is returned
• Drivers:
  • Postgres: tested with versions 8.4 and 9.1
  • MySQL: tested with version 5.1
  • SQLite3: tested with version 3.6
  • Firebird: compiled but not tested
  • SQLite: adapted but not compiled
  • ODBC: adapted but not compiled
  • Oracle/OCI8: adapted but not compiled
  • ADO: nothing changed
  • JDBC: nothing changed

LuaSQL 2.2.0 [??/??/200?]

• Added Firebird driver
• Added LuaRocks specifications
• escape method added to some drivers
• getlastautoid method added to MySQL driver
• fetch method now closes the cursor when there is no more rows to retrieve
• Uniformization of method's return values on all drivers

LuaSQL 2.1.1 [29/Oct/2007]

• Fixed a bug in the SQLite3 error handling (patch by David Burgess)
• Fixed bug [#1770] for SQLite 3 (found by Enrico Tassi, patch by Marc Nijdam)
• Fixed bug [#1834] for SQLite 3 (found by Savin Zlobec, patch by Marc Nijdam)

LuaSQL 2.1.0 [29/Aug/2007]

• Added support for SQLite 3
• Bug correction: freeing PGresults in the Postgres driver (thanks to Michael Broughton)
• Corrected memory leak when no cursor created (thanks to Klaus Ripke)
• Corrected bug avoiding duplicate access to stack

LuaSQL 2.0.2 [26/Jun/2006]

• numrows method added to MySQL driver.
• Added a config for the makefile.
• Added configuration for the UnixODBC driver.
• Bug fixes to the SQLite driver (bug found by Mike Petersen).
• Bug fixes to the JDBC, OCI8 and ADO drivers.
• Improved tests.
• Updated documentation.

LuaSQL 2.0.1 [02/Jun/2005]

• Bug fixes to the ODBC driver.

LuaSQL 2.0.0 [22/Mar/2005]

• Added ADO driver and some bug fixes to the ODBC driver.

LuaSQL 2.0 Beta 3 [23/Dec/2004]

• Minor bug fixes.

LuaSQL 2.0 Beta 2 [26/Nov/2004]

• Bug fixes
• New SQLite and JDBC drivers
• LuaSQL now follows the package model for Lua 5.1 (see Installation section for more details).

LuaSQL 2.0 Beta [10/Nov/2003]

Changes from previous versions

Version 2.x has some design changes and implementation improvements compared to version 1.0:

• New fetch method: more eficient and more flexible
• New setautocommit method
• Lua 5.0 and 5.1 compatible
• Dynamically loadable or statically linked
• New drivers for Oracle and MySQL databases