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Re: Confusion over Python drivers

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Confusion over Python drivers
Date: 2010-02-05 14:46:14
Message-ID: 201002051446.o15EkEH15878@momjian.us (view raw or flat)
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Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:19:26AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > My son has brought to my attention that our current crop of Python
> > client libraries is inadequate/confusing.  I took a look myself, and
> > asked on our IRC channel, and am now convinced this area needs
> > attention.
> > 
> > 	http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Python
> > The Python-hosted PostgreSQL page has similar problems:
> > 	http://wiki.python.org/moin/PostgreSQL
> > 
> > Does Perl have a similar mess?
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> The primary database interface is DBI and as far as I can see there's
> only one DBI PostgreSQL driver: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/
> 
> The only non-DBI interfaces I could find (by skimming the 384 results
> for postgresql on search.cpan.org) were:
> Postgres: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Postgres/    last updated in 1998.
> Pg:       http://search.cpan.org/dist/pgsql_perl5/ last updated in 2000.

Yes, that's what I thought, and am glad to here it.

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