Devart is glad to announce the release of dotConnect for PostgreSQL 8.18 — a powerful ADO.NET provider for PostgreSQL with advanced support for Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, LinqConnect (LINQ to PostgreSQL) and NHibernate. The new version offers you support for spatial data in Entity Framework Core, support for database-specific functions and full-text search in Entity Framework Core, and monitoring improvements.
Spatial Data Support for EF Core
Support for Spatial data in Entity Framework Core is implemented in the Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.EFCore.NetTopologySuite.dll assembly, available for Full .NET Framework via the product installer, and for .NET Standard project — as a separate NuGet package.
Entity Developer also supports mapping spatial properties to database columns of corresponding types. When generating a model from a database, having spatial columns, it automatically downloads all the necessary NuGet packages to your projects.
Read more about our spatial data support in the Entity Framework Core Spatials Support in dotConnect ADO.NET Providers blog article.
Full Text Search and Database-specific Functions Support for EF Core
The PgSqlFunctions and PgSqlTextFunctions classes, used for calling database-specific functions and full-text search functions in Entity Framework v4 – v6, are now available for Entity Framework Core.
Monitoring Improvements
dotConnect for PostgreSQL 8.18 allows tweaking monitoring in more details and significantly decrease performance loss from monitoring. Now you can turn off costly call stack sending for all database events via the SendCallStack property of the PgSqlMonitor class. Additionally, you can specify events that you want to monitor in the Filter property, and other events won’t be monitored.
And a bonus feature – now the PgSqlMonitor class sends timestamps for database events with milliseconds included.
Here is the complete list of dotConnect for PostgreSQL 8.18.1730 features:
- The SendCallStack property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to turn off resource-demanding logging of CallStack
- The Filter property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to choose events being logged
- The Devart.Common.DbMonitor class is improved: now values of the DateTime parameters sent to the dbMonitor tool are supplemented with milliseconds
- The bug with updating projects in folders below the main project by Upgrade Wizard is fixed
- The bug with connecting via Amazon RDS Proxy is fixed
- The error message in console Entity Developer is improved: now the text includes the list of all available templates if the specified name of template was incorrect
- The bug with saving a new model, which has never been saved before, after some time of work in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed
- The bug with generating mapping for the properties with Shadow=True in EF Core Model is fixed
- The bug with using spatial types inside complex types in EF Core Model is fixed
- Support for spatial data types in EF Core 3 is implemented
- Entity Framework Core 3.1.8 is supported
- The new NuGet package Devart.Data.PostgreSql.EFCore.NetTopolosySuite with a .NET Standard 2.1 assembly, that is compatible with .NET Core 3, is added
- The new \Entity\EFCore3\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.EFCore.NetTopolosySuite.dll assembly compiled with EF Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 is added
- The PgSqlFunctions class, which allows using PostgreSQL-specific functions in LINQ to Entities, is supported in EF Core
- The PgSqlTextFunctions class, which allows using PostgreSQL full-text search functionality in LINQ to Entities, is supported in EF Core
http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/postgresql/