firebird_FDW 1.2.0 released

firebird_fdw, a foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL providing read and write access to Firebird databases, is now available as version 1.2.0.

This release provides following new features:

• support for PostgreSQL 13
• support for generated columns (PostgreSQL 12 and later)
• support for COPY and partition tuple routing (PostgreSQL 11 and later)
• improved handling of case folding/identifier quoting
• support for “implicit booleans”
• pushdown of boolean tests in WHERE clauses (including implicit booleans)
• following utility functions have been added:
  • firebird_fdw_server_options(servername TEXT): displays the current settings for the named server
  • firebird_version(): shows Firebird version information for each firebird_fdw foreign server in the current database
• ERROR log messages will show any relevant Firebird query as a CONTEXT message

Following bugs have been fixed:

• EXPLAIN for a remote modify now shows the Firebird query used
• UPDATE statements where a BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger is present now work correctly
• CREATE SERVER‘s port option is now recognized
• foreign tables defined as queries can no longer be set as updatable = 'true'

This release requires Firebird API wrapper libfq version 0.4.0 or later (latest version at the time of writing: 0.4.2)

firebird_fdw 1.2.0 is compatible with PostgreSQL versions 9.3 ~ 13. Note that support for PostgreSQL 9.2 has been removed in this release. It supports Firebird 2.5.x and Firebird 3.0.x.

Source code is available from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/ibarwick/firebird_fdw/

CentOS rpm packages are available via the Fedora Copr build system.