| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Billy G(dot) Allie" <Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Announcing PgSQL - a Python DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2000-10-10 21:06:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20507.971212000@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Billy G. Allie" <Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Sounds interesting, but isn't "pgsql" an extremely unfortunate choice of
>> name, given that it's already used as an abbreviation for "PostgreSQL"?
> PgSQL is the name of the module you import in Python to access a PostgreSQL
> database from Python using the DB-API 2.0. The project name on SourceForge
> is "Python Interface to PostgreSQL". Of course, it there is too much heart
> burn with the modules name, I can change it.
FWIW, my initial reaction was the same as Peter's: that name is certain
to cause confusion. I don't want to try to force you to change it, but
I think it's not a good choice.
Don't have a better alternative to offer offhand, however.
regards, tom lane
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