For instance, the connect() function of the pgdb module could take an
additional parameter "datetypes" which could be set to None = "str",
"datetime" or "mx" = "mx.datetime".
Need to comment myself again. I noticed that the mx.ODBC module does it
similarly. They use a connection attribut "datetimeformat" that you can
set to the following values:
DATETIME_DATETIMEFORMAT [default] -> mx.DateTime
TIMEVALUE_DATETIMEFORMAT -> Ticks
TUPLE_DATETIMEFORMAT -> Python
STRING_DATETIMEFORMAT -> Raw from the database (string)
I think we should use the same attribute and values, instead of
inventing anything new. We only need to split DATETIME_DATETIMEFORMAT
into two subvariants:
MX_DATETIMEFORMAT [default] -> use mx.DateTime module
DATETIME_DATETIMEFORMAT -> use Python datetime module
If mx.DateTime is not installed, then DATETIME_DATETIMEFORMAT should be
the default instead. Or should we better make STRING_DATETIMEFORMAT the
default for backward compatibility?
-- Christoph
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