./databases/py-psycopg, PostgreSQL database adapter for Python

[ CVSweb ] [ Homepage ] [ RSS ] [ Required by ] [ Add to tracker ]

Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q2, Version: 1.1.21nb3, Package name: py24-psycopg-1.1.21nb3, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language
(just like pygresql and popy.) It was written from scratch with the aim of
being very small and fast, and stable as a rock. The main advantages of
psycopg are that it supports (well... *will* support) the full Python
DBAPI-2.0 and being thread safe at level 2.

psycopg is different from the other database adapter because it was designed
for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of
cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs.
Every open Python connection keeps a pool of real (UNIX or TCP/IP) connections
to the database. Every time a new cursor is created, a new connection does not
need to be opened; instead one of the unused connections from the pool is
used. That makes psycopg very fast in typical client-server applications that
create a servicing thread every time a client request arrives.

Master sites:

SHA1: 02d8a8b5dd682306117896c7c63a9a1b518997b6
RMD160: de74a70b16353f69de7e898059a7a1d8418ad2ee
Filesize: 208.743 KB

Version history: (Expand)