| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Confusion over Python drivers |
| Date: | 2010-02-05 15:00:45 |
| Message-ID: | 1265382045.9591.15.camel@fsibm801.F-Secure.com |
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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.
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