Re: Python Driver

Funny you should say that - the system I am developing has a similar
system, although not as fully developed. I am now having trouble with
psycopg locking up my database somehow. It's almost like there are
outstanding locks on objects in the database that are preventing other
threads operating. Talk about a frustrating week.

Alex Turner
netEconomist

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:58:21 -0600, James Thompson <jamest(at)ajrs(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:56 pm, Alex Turner wrote:
> > Just a small warning for those people using python with postgresql:
> > pysgresql and psycopg are very different animals. You cannot drop in
> > one as a replacement for the other, even though both 'claim' to be DB
> > API 2.0 compliant.
>
> None of the python postgresql drivers are drop in replacements for each other.
> Some drivers, such as popy return all data as strings, some have broken
> fetchmany support, each IIRC return different exceptions in different
> situations. Pygresql has its own API that I believe predates DBAPI 2.0 and
> support for the standard API was added at a later date.
>
> shameless plug.....
>
> One feature of gnuenterprize.org's common library is a datasource system that
> uses a single connections.conf file that contains entries like
>
> [devel]
> comment = Development DB
> provider = psycopg
> host = rdbms.gnuenterprise.org
> dbname = devel
>
> to setup a connection to a database named "devel". Providers can be any of
> the 4 postgresql drivers, oracle, db2, ingres, mysql, ado, odbc, etc, etc.
> Most if not all the dbsig 2 drivers are supported. Other formats such a dbf
> and csv are supported to varying degrees. You can switch out databases by
> editing that one file. Providers are not limited to just databases either,
> our application server is just another provider in our system. Differences
> between providers are handled transparently to the developer.
>
> Take Care,
> James
>
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