| From: | James William Pye <lists(at)jwp(dot)name> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, 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 19:54:39 |
| Message-ID: | 8C2F9319-B7C6-4C2D-B0A2-EAE4867981B3@jwp.name |
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On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.
>
> Given that SQLAlchemy isn't for everyone, of course ... it couldn't be,
> or Django would use it, no?
Here are some to start with:
- paramstyle
- No direct support of prepared statements
[they *tried* to compensate for this with "cached statements", but it's inadequate]
- Too many *optional* extensions (Cursor Method .__iter__() being rather notable)
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