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New features:
- Added `~psycopg2.sql` module to generate SQL dynamically (:ticket:`308`).
- Added :ref:`replication-support` (:ticket:`322`). Main authors are
Oleksandr Shulgin and Craig Ringer, who deserve a huge thank you.
- Added `~psycopg2.extensions.parse_dsn()` and
`~psycopg2.extensions.make_dsn()` functions (:tickets:`321, 363`).
`~psycopg2.connect()` now can take both *dsn* and keyword arguments, merging
them together.
- Added `~psycopg2.__libpq_version__` and
`~psycopg2.extensions.libpq_version()` to inspect the version of the
``libpq`` library the module was bundled with
(:tickets:`35, 323`).
- The attributes `~connection.notices` and `~connection.notifies` can be
customized replacing them with any object exposing an `!append()` method
(:ticket:`326`).
- Adapt network types to `ipaddress` objects when available. When not
enabled, convert arrays of network types to lists by default. The old `!Inet`
adapter is deprecated (:tickets:`317, 343, 387`).
- Added `~psycopg2.extensions.quote_ident()` function (:ticket:`359`).
- Added `~connection.get_dsn_parameters()` connection method (:ticket:`364`).
- `~cursor.callproc()` now accepts a dictionary of parameters (:ticket:`381`).
- Give precedence to `!__conform__()` over superclasses to choose an object
adapter (:ticket:`456`).
- Using Python C API decoding functions and codecs caching for faster
unicode encoding/decoding (:ticket:`473`).
- `~cursor.executemany()` slowness addressed by
`~psycopg2.extras.execute_batch()` and `~psycopg2.extras.execute_values()`
(:ticket:`491`).
- Added ``async_`` as an alias for ``async`` to support Python 3.7 where
``async`` will become a keyword (:ticket:`495`).
- Unless in autocommit, do not use :sql:`default_transaction_*` settings to
control the session characteristics as it may create problems with external
connection pools such as pgbouncer; use :sql:`BEGIN` options instead
(:ticket:`503`).
- `~connection.isolation_level` is now writable and entirely separated from
`~connection.autocommit`; added `~connection.readonly`,
`~connection.deferrable` writable attributes.
Bug fixes:
- Throw an exception trying to pass ``NULL`` chars as parameters
(:ticket:`420`).
- Fixed error caused by missing decoding `~psycopg2.extras.LoggingConnection`
(:ticket:`483`).
- Fixed integer overflow in :sql:`interval` seconds (:ticket:`512`).
- Make `~psycopg2.extras.Range` objects picklable (:ticket:`462`).
- Fixed version parsing and building with PostgreSQL 10 (:ticket:`489`).
Other changes:
- Dropped support for Python 2.5 and 3.1.
- Dropped support for client library older than PostgreSQL 9.1 (but older
server versions are still supported).
- `~connection.isolation_level` doesn't read from the database but will return
`~psycopg2.extensions.ISOLATION_LEVEL_DEFAULT` if no value was set on the
connection.
- Empty arrays no more converted into lists if they don't have a type attached
(:ticket:`506`)