OK. I looked at the source and found I can add a parameter to the URL:

'postgres:pg8000://web2py:web2py@localhost/mydatabase'

But the bad news is --- pg8000 doesn't support Python 2.7!  (Or so the docs 
say.)  It stopped development awhile ago, apparently.  Oh well.

-- Joe

On Thursday, August 8, 2013 9:15:24 PM UTC-7, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>
> This is probably so simple everyone already knows it... but...
>
> Now that I have psycopg2 installed, my web2py instance always chooses it 
> when opening a postgres database.  How can I tell it to use the pg8000 
> driver?  I'd still like to compare the two, and feed back hints to the 
> pg8000 project if I discover anything interesting.  Ultimately I think the 
> community will be well-served by a pure Python driver because PyPy will 
> work one day and we'll all want pure Python for everything at that time.
>
> -- Joe
>
>

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