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+# libpqtypes
+
+This is a fork of the official libpqtypes repository. 
+The reason for creating this fork is a slow reaction from libpqtypes developers to newly found bugs. 
+At the moment of creation (22-Jan-2016) this repository contains version 1.5.2 which features a few critical bugfixes (the list of bug fixes TBA) on top of the 
+latest official version 1.5.1.