Revise driver repackaging

[vitaly-t]

Revise the latest repackaging of everything in the driver, to see what effect, if any, it may have here.

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[vitaly-t]

For now, making 10.4.0-beta0 available with the latest driver.

[vitaly-t]

Many changes are happening in the driver presently. I will revise it all when 17.x reaches its end. For now, there's 10.4.0-beta.1 update.

You can install the latest beta via:

npm i pg-promise@beta

[vitaly-t]

While the driver continues to undergo changes that do not inspire confidence, I continue the corresponding updates within versions 10.4.0-beta.x, with 10.4.0-beta.3 being the latest.

Here's just the latest issue that I encountered.

I would urge anyone using it in production to stay away from the beta versions. They can be flimsy, especially in relation to data streaming. Stick to the officially released versions only.

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I am doing my best to shield developers from any unreliable updates in the driver. 😄

[vitaly-t]

After everything, I am beginning to think that 10.4.0 won't see the light of day, the way it was intended. If anything, it will be v11.0.0 to take all those humongous changes in the driver, leaving v10 carrying on without ever updating the driver.

Version 10 is very robust, no need breaking things.

[daveisfera]

For what my two cents is worth, I'd prefer a version 11 over 10.4 with such big changes

[vitaly-t]

@daveisfera It might happen, once the underlying driver settles. For now, it is still undergoing those changes, and those are all available through the beta releases.

[vitaly-t]

On second thought, the major breaking changes are coming in v8.0.0 of the driver, so maybe it will be ok to go with 10.4.0 update here, and then with v11.0.0, using v8.0.0 of the driver?...

[daveisfera]

Sounds good to me

[vitaly-t]

Release 10.4.0 concludes this work. Should there be any further problems with the new driver, new issues will be open for that.