Pg-promise: Nodejs 7 buffer deprecation warning

[alpertuna]

Hi,
After upgrading nodejs to 7, I got this warning and wanted to report it.

DeprecationWarning: Using Buffer without `new` will soon stop working. Use `new Buffer()`, or preferably `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.allocUnsafe()` or `Buffer.alloc()` instead.

[vitaly-t]

This warning relates to the underlying driver, and not immediately to this library. This will get resolved when the time is right. At the moment it is not, as the driver got a number of its own problems, and not really suitable for an upgrade. By the time that "soon" becomes "now" it will be resolved, somehow.

[alpertuna]

I supposed Buffer is used by this library since I didn't look into source, that's why I just wanted to report it. Of course time is not problem as nodejs 7 is very new.
I would move the issue to main library but there is already reported one; https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/issues/1163

Btw, thanks for quick reply.

[MitMaro]

Looks like this won't be an issue for at least node 7.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4fffe32a4b3a93548c4d39b1c2531aa38403b5e6

[vitaly-t]

Version 7.2.1 of Node.js removed both the warning and the plans for making the change in 7.x :smile:

Problem solved! 😸