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Re: Confusion over Python drivers

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Confusion over Python drivers
Date: 2010-02-05 17:01:42
Message-ID: 201002051701.o15H1gF02233@momjian.us (view raw or flat)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-02-05 at 14:45 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > > 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/
> 
> I think another difference is that the Perl DBI interface is very rich,
> whereas the Python DB-API is quite minimal and almost forces people to
> write (incompatible) extensions.  The DB-SIG at Python that ought to
> drive all this is also quite dead, possibly because everyone has moved
> on to SQLAlchemy.

I assumed it would be Perl that had confusion because of the Perl 6, but
obviously it is Python.  The second PL/Python server-side language that
was proposed recently is taking on a whole new appearance for me.  :-(

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