A.2. Release 0.6.0

A.2.1. Support for additional data types

Support for the following Firebird data types has been added:

• Columns defined with CHARACTER SET OCTETS.

• INT128 data type (Firebird 4 and later).

• TIME WITH TIME ZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types (Firebird 4 and later).

Additionally, output of FLOAT and DOUBLE PRECISION data type values has been improved.

A.2.2. Database connection control improvements

Following additional parameters can be provided to FQconnectdbParams():

• client_min_messages - specifies the minimum level of log messages emitted by libfq

• time_zone_names - whether to display time zone names as-is or as time zone offsets

• isql_values - option to display FLOAT and DOUBLE PRECISION values in the same way isql would display them.

Additionally, the constant FBCONN_MAX_PARAMS has been provided to define the maximum number of parameters supported by FQconnectdbParams.

Following functions are provided to dynamically modify the above settings for an existing connection:

• FQsetClientMinMessages

• FQsetClientMinMessagesString

• FQsetTimeZoneNames

• FQsetIsqlValues