Re: Confusion over Python drivers

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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