2.8.0.txt

New Features

Sequel now supports database stored procedures similar to its support for prepared statements. The API is as follows:
```
DB[:table].call_sproc(:select, :mysp, 'param1', 'param2')
# or
sp = DB[:table].prepare_sproc(:select, :mysp)
sp.call('param1', 'param2')
sp.call('param3', 'param4')
```
This works with Model datasets as well, allowing them to return model objects:
```
Album.call_sproc(:select, :new_albums)
#=> [#<Album ...>, #<Album ...>]
```
You can call a stored procedure directly on the Database object if you want to, but the results and API are adapter dependent, and you definitely shouldn’t do it if the stored procedure returns rows:
```
DB.call_sproc(:mysp, :args=>['param1', 'param2'])
```
Currently, the MySQL and JDBC adapters support stored procedures. Other adapters may support them in a future version.
The connection pool code can now remove connections if the adapter raises a Sequel::DatabaseDisconnectError indicating that the connection has been lost. When a query is attempted and the adapter raises this error, the connection pool removes the connection from the pool, and reraises the error. The Oracle and PostgreSQL adapters currently support this, and other adapters may support it in a future version.
Whether to upcase or quote identifiers can now be set separately. Previously, upcasing was done when quoting except when using SQLite, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. Now, you can turn upcasing off while still quoting. This may be necessary if you are using a MSSQL database that has lower case table names that conflict with reserved words. It also allows you to uppercase identifiers when using SQLite, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, which may be beneficial in certain cases.

To turn upcasing on or off:
```
# Global
Sequel.upcase_identifiers = true
# Database
DB = Sequel.connect("postgres://...", :upcase_identifiers=>true)
DB.upcase_identifiers = false
# Dataset
ds = DB[:items]
ds.upcase_identifiers = true
```

Options are now supported when altering a columns type:

DB.alter_table(:items) do
  set_column_type :score, :integer, :unsigned=>true
  set_column_type :score, :varchar, :size=>30
  set_column_type :score, :enum, :elements=>['a', 'b']
end

Standard conforming strings are now turned on by default in the PostgreSQL adapter. This makes PostgreSQL not interpret backslash escapes. This is the PostgreSQL recommended setting, which will be the default setting in a future version of PostgreSQL. If you don’t want for force the use of standard strings, use:
```
Sequel::Postgres.force_standard_strings = false
```
You need to do that after you call Sequel.connect but before you use the database for anything, since that setting is set on initial connection.
Sequel now raises an error if you attempt to use EXCEPT [ALL] or INTERSECT [ALL] on a database that doesn’t support it.
Sequel now raises an error if you attempt to use DISTINCT ON with MySQL or Oracle, which don’t support it.
A subadapter for the Progress RDBMS was added to the ODBC adapter. To connect to a Progress database, use the :db_type=>‘progress’ option. This adapter targets Progress 9.
The ODBC adapter now supports transactions.
The MSSQL shared adapter now supports multi_insert (for inserting multiple rows at once), and unicode string literals.

Other Improvements

There were many improvements related to using schemas in databases. Using schema-qualified tables should work in most if not all cases now. Model associations, getting the schema, joins, and many other parts of Sequel were modified to allow the use of schema-qualifed tables.

You can now use literal strings with placeholders as well as subselects when using prepared statements. For example, the following all work now:

DB[:items].filter("id = ?", :$i).call(:select, :i=>1)
DB[:items].filter(:id=>DB[:items].select(:id)\
  .filter(:id=>:$i)).call(:select, :i=>1)
DB["SELECT * FROM items WHERE id = ?", :$i].call(:select, :i=>1)

Model#initialize received a few more micro-optimizations.
Model#refresh now clears the changed columns as well as the associations.
You can now drop columns inside a transaction when using SQLite.
You can now submit multiple SQL queries at once in the MySQL adapter:
```
DB['SELECT 1; SELECT 2'].all
#=> [{:"1"=>1, :"2"=>2}]
```
This may fix issues if you’ve seen a MySQL “commands out of sync” message. Note that this doesn’t work if you are connecting to MySQL via JDBC.

You can now use AliasedExpressions directly in table names given to join_table:

DB.from(:i.as(:j)).join(:k.as(:l), :a=>:b)
#=> ... FROM i AS j INNER JOIN k AS l ON (l.a = j.b)

Database#rename_table once again works on PostgreSQL. It was broken in 2.7.0.
The interval type is now treated as it’s own type. It was previously treated as an integer type.
Subselects are now aliased correctly when using Oracle.
UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statements now appear before ORDER and LIMIT on most databases. If you use these constructs, please test and make sure that they work correctly with your database.
SQL EXCEPT clause now works on Oracle, which uses MINUS instead.
Dataset#exists now returns a LiteralString, to make it easier to use.
The Sequel.odbc_mssql method was removed, as the odbc_mssql adapter was removed in a previous version. Instead, use:
```
Sequel.odbc(..., :db_type=>'mssql')
```

Backwards Compatibilty

The hash returned by Database#schema when no table name is provided uses quoted strings instead of symbols as keys. The hash has a default proc, so using the symbol will return the same value as before, but if you use each to iterate through the hash, the keys will be different. This was necessary to handle schema-qualified tables.
Database#table_exists? no longer checks the output of Database#tables. If the table exists in the schema, it returns true, otherwise, it does a query. This was necessary because table_exists? accepts multiple formats for table names and Database#tables is an array of symbols.
When getting the schema on PostgreSQL, the default schema is now used even if the :schema=>nil option is used.