LuaSQL: Database connectivity for the Lua programming language

LuaSQL
Database connectivity for the Lua programming language

## History

LuaSQL 2.3.3 [16/May/2016]
  - Bug correction in Postgres driver: generating error message after failed connection (thanks to seanpringle)
LuaSQL 2.3.2 [14/May/2016]
  - Bug correction in Postgres driver: freeing memory after failed connection opening (thanks to seanpringle)
LuaSQL 2.3.1 [28/Mar/2016]
  - Improvement on the Postgres driver to avoid the need of compiler support of dynamic array allocation
LuaSQL 2.3.0 [23/May/2012]
  - Added support to compile the drivers for all Lua 5.X versions (only Postgres, MySQL and SQLite were tested by the time of the launch)
  - Correction on MySQL implementation to honor the close of the cursor when the last row is returned
  - Drivers:
    - Postgres: tested with versions 8.4 and 9.1
    - MySQL: tested with version 5.1
    - SQLite3: tested with version 3.6
    - Firebird: compiled but not tested
    - SQLite: adapted but not compiled
    - ODBC: adapted but not compiled
    - Oracle/OCI8: adapted but not compiled
    - ADO: nothing changed
    - JDBC: nothing changed
LuaSQL 2.2.0 [??/??/200?]
  - Added Firebird driver
  - Added LuaRocks specifications
  - escape method added to some drivers
  - getlastautoid method added to MySQL driver
  - fetch method now closes the cursor when there is no more rows to retrieve
  - Uniformization of method's return values on all drivers
LuaSQL 2.1.1 [29/Oct/2007]
  - Fixed a bug in the SQLite3 error handling (patch by David Burgess)
  - Fixed bug [#1770] for SQLite 3 (found by Enrico Tassi, patch by Marc Nijdam)
  - Fixed bug [#1834] for SQLite 3 (found by Savin Zlobec, patch by Marc Nijdam)
LuaSQL 2.1.0 [29/Aug/2007]
  - Added support for SQLite 3
  - Bug correction: freeing PGresults in the Postgres driver (thanks to Michael Broughton)
  - Corrected memory leak when no cursor created (thanks to Klaus Ripke)
  - Corrected bug avoiding duplicate access to stack
LuaSQL 2.0.2 [26/Jun/2006]
  - numrows method added to MySQL driver.
  - Added a `config` for the `makefile`.
  - Added configuration for the UnixODBC driver.
  - Bug fixes to the SQLite driver (bug found by Mike Petersen).
  - Bug fixes to the JDBC, OCI8 and ADO drivers.
  - Improved tests.
  - Updated documentation.
LuaSQL 2.0.1 [02/Jun/2005]
  - Bug fixes to the ODBC driver.
LuaSQL 2.0.0 [22/Mar/2005]
  - Added ADO driver and some bug fixes to the ODBC driver.
LuaSQL 2.0 Beta 3 [23/Dec/2004]
  - Minor bug fixes.
LuaSQL 2.0 Beta 2 [26/Nov/2004]
  - Bug fixes
  - New SQLite and JDBC drivers
  - LuaSQL now follows the package model for Lua 5.1 (see Installation section for more details).
LuaSQL 2.0 Beta [10/Nov/2003]

## Changes from previous versions

Version 2.x has some design changes and implementation improvements compared to version 1.0:

- New `fetch` method: more eficient and more flexible
- New `setautocommit` method
- Lua 5.0 and 5.1 compatible
- Dynamically loadable or statically linked
- New drivers for Oracle and MySQL databases

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