Psycopg 2.3.0-beta1 released

Posted by Daniele Varrazzo on 2010-11-06
Tagged as news, release, beta

We have just released a new testing package: psycopg 2.3.0-beta1!

As previously described the 2.3 introduces several new features:

• dict to hstore adaptation, compatible with both PostgreSQL 9.0 and previous versions
• two-phase commit protocol support as per DBAPI specification
• support for payload in notifications received from the backend

There are other minor changes and improvements, such as:

• an handy namedtuples returning cursor
• more faithful mogrify() results
• errorcodes updated with the new symbolic constants introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0

Further details and a list of bug fixes is available in the NEWS file in the distribution.