Hawkix Blog

Time for some news about PG4WP.

Hawkix Blog is now running WordPress 2.9.1 using PG4WP 1.1.0rc2

I’ve tagged a 1.1.0rc2 release because I didn’t get much feedback until now.
‘RC’ means it is a Release Candidate, I feel confident about it being stable enough for production use, but it still needs testing.

Please note : error logging is active in this release, but you can disable it in ‘db.php’ that you have to copy in ‘wp-content’.

The ‘readme.txt’ file is up to date about installation, don’t forget to read it.

[UPDATE] Some people asked me were to download this release, so here is the direct link to the zip file in the wordpress plugins directory

PG4WP 1.1.0 is almost ready for release.

All I need now is some feedback from people who can test the latest development version.
You can leave a comment to this post to give your feedback.

Fresh install of WordPress 2.9.1 seems to work smoothly, at least with PHP 5.2 and PostgreSQL 8.3 (this is my test/dev setup).

Upgrading from WP 2.8.6 to 2.9.1 works ok, there is just one query that generates an “INDEX not found” during the upgrade (for my testing database), this is a non blocking error.

If you are brave enough to test upgrading  from WP 2.8.6 (or any older release) to WP 2.9.1 please note that you should upgrade PG4WP before you start WordPress’ upgrade.
Don’t forget to make a complete backup of your data before trying this.

Important note : the ‘db.php’ from the development archive has PG4WP_LOG_ERRORS set to true, so if you don’t want these logs don’t forget to change it after copying the file to ‘wp-content’.

Here is the download link to the latest development version of PG4WP

The developpement Version of PG4WP has initial support for WordPress 2.9.1 fresh installs, you can test it and give your feedback as a comment to this post (please give some informations about your setup).

You can download this version in the plugin directory (in the “Other Versions” section).

As always, don’t forget to make complete backups before testing a development version.

Note : upgrading from WP 2.8.x is not ready yet (it works, but generates errors about indexes that may make your setup unusable after upgrade), I have some more work and testing before I put this part into the development version.

Some of you may have noticed that 2 new releases of PG4WP were recently published (1.0.1 and 1.0.2).

Be warned that these new releases are not intended for WordPress 2.9.x, they are aimed at reorganizing files an directories and small enhancements.

Here is the list of changes :

= 1.0.2 =
* Updated support for plugin zdMultilang 1.2.5
* Got rid of some remaining hardcoded table prefix
* Added the possibility to log only errors

= 1.0.1 =
* Reorganisation of directory structure
* Updated installation procedure
* Changed the fake server version to 4.1.3
* Added support for Unix socket connections (just leave the “host” field empty when installing)

I’m now working on update for complete support of WordPress 2.9.1 (upgrade from 2.8.X AND fresh install), version 1.1.0 should be ready in a few days.