From:
Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To:
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Cc:
Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>,
Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>,
Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>,
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject:
Re: Confusion over Python drivers
Date:
2010-02-06 00:39:53
Message-ID:
201002060140.02703.andres@anarazel.de (view raw or flat )
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2010-02-05 14:19:26 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2010-02-05 14:28:10 from "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>
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2010-02-05 14:43:18 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2010-02-05 14:45:45 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2010-02-05 18:35:57 from Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
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2010-02-05 19:32:10 from Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
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2010-02-05 17:01:42 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2010-02-05 18:34:23 from Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
2010-02-05 19:54:39 from James William Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>
2010-02-05 20:34:53 from Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
2010-02-05 20:49:01 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2010-02-06 00:39:53 from Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
2010-02-06 00:42:35 from Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
2010-02-06 02:18:58 from James William Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>
2010-02-07 00:51:18 from Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
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2010-02-06 22:38:37 from Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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2010-02-07 00:48:33 from Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
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2010-02-07 11:27:45 from "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>
2010-02-07 19:50:05 from Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
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2010-02-08 19:50:37 from Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
2010-02-08 22:15:57 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
2010-02-08 23:34:25 from Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
2010-02-08 23:46:54 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
2010-02-09 00:01:55 from Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
2010-02-09 01:51:09 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
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2010-02-09 02:56:49 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
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2010-02-12 07:28:26 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
2010-02-12 14:31:27 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2010-02-13 01:07:42 from Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>
2010-02-08 08:14:22 from "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>
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2010-02-08 23:50:53 from Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
2010-02-05 19:08:31 from James William Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name>
2010-02-05 20:51:06 from Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
2010-02-05 21:01:52 from Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
2010-02-05 23:47:19 from Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
2010-02-07 06:40:35 from Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
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2010-02-14 19:43:03 from Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
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On Friday 05 February 2010 21:34:53 Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 2/5/10, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > For people who use Python a lot, could I have a list of the deficiencies
> >
> > in DBAPI? I've got my horse and lance ready.
> Psycopg was the leader, especially in web-environments,
> but it has non-obvious license and with dead website it does not
> seem that attractive. Although it is well-maintained still.
Imho a big problem is that it does way too much itself - i.e. it does not use
things like PQExecParams but does escaping/parsing itself...
Other people may think thats a good idea - I definitely do not think so.
Andres
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