Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On fre, 2010-02-05 at 14:45 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > 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/ > > I think another difference is that the Perl DBI interface is very rich, > whereas the Python DB-API is quite minimal and almost forces people to > write (incompatible) extensions. The DB-SIG at Python that ought to > drive all this is also quite dead, possibly because everyone has moved > on to SQLAlchemy.
I assumed it would be Perl that had confusion because of the Perl 6, but obviously it is Python. The second PL/Python server-side language that was proposed recently is taking on a whole new appearance for me. :-( -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
