Re: Announcing PgSQL - a Python DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to PostgreSQL

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I need to know how this is different than our current python interface,
> PyGreSQL.

Is this a product of pgsql.com?

Vince.

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> > Announce: First public release of PgSQL Version 1.0
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> >
> > PgSQL v1.0 has been released. This is the first public release of PgSQL.
> > It is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql.
> >
> > PgSQL is a package of two (2) modules that provide a Python DB-API 2.0
> > compliant interface to PostgreSQL databases. The first module, libpq,
> > exports the PostgreSQL C API to Python. This module is written in C and
> > can be compiled into Python or can be dynamically loaded on demand. The
> > second module, PgSQL, provides the DB-API 2.0 compliant interface and
> > support for various PostgreSQL data types, such as INT8, NUMERIC, MONEY,
> > BOOL, ARRAYS, etc. This module is written in Python and works with
> > PostgreSQL 6.5.2 or later and Python 1.5.2 or later.
> >
> > PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all
> > SQL constructs, including sub-selects, transactions, and user-defined types
> > and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available
> > anywhere More information about PostgreSQL can be found at the PostgreSQL
> > home page at http://www.postgresql.org.
> >
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