v0.6

• Interface changes

  • Deprecated dbDriver() and dbUnloadDriver() by documentation (#21).
  • Renamed arguments to sqlInterpolate() and sqlParseVariables() to be more consistent with the rest of the interface, and added .dots argument to sqlParseVariables. DBI drivers are now expected to implement sqlParseVariables(conn, sql, ..., .dots) and sqlInterpolate(conn, sql, ...) (#147).

• Interface enhancements

  • Removed valueClass = "logical" for those generics where the return value is meaningless, to allow backends to return invisibly (#135).
  • Avoiding using braces in the definitions of generics if possible, so that standard generics can be detected (#146).
  • Added default implementation for dbReadTable().
  • All standard generics are required to have an ellipsis (with test), for future extensibility. - Improved default implementation of dbQuoteString() and dbQuoteIdentifier() (#77).
  • Removed tryCatch() call in dbGetQuery() (#113).

• Documentation improvements

  • Finalized first draft of DBI specification, now in a vignette.
  • Most methods now draw documentation from DBItest, only those where the behavior is not finally decided don't do this yet yet.
  • Removed max.connections requirement from documentation (#56).
  • Improved dbBind() documentation and example (#136).
  • Change omegahat.org URL to omegahat.net, the particular document still doesn't exist below the new domain.

• Internal

  • Use roxygen2 inheritance to copy DBI specification to this package.
  • Use tic package for building documentation.
  • Use markdown in documentation.