Greg Smith wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > While I realize experienced people can easily navigate this confusion... > > No, that's the worst part--the more you know and the deeper you dig into > it, the more broken you realize the whole thing is. When one of the > best drivers (in some respects) has a web page that looks like this: > http://initd.org/ that doesn't seem so bad at first--but if you're > experienced, you know that the page has been in that disturbing state > since late 2006. You start digging into the driver mess, figure you > just need to learn how things fit together, but the hole keeps getting > bigger as you dig. > > The issues here have already been identified: the Perl DBI is an > excellent spec, while the Python one is so weak everybody ends up > needing their own extensions to it. And then portability *even among > Python PostgreSQL drivers* goes out the window. If somebody built a > BSD/MIT licensed driver that replaces every useful feature of all the > forks, with no major problems, and a couple of major projects switched > over to it (think "Skype" level big), maybe this mess could get > resolved. I think it would take someone already familiar with the major > issues involved a couple of months of regular work to make any serious > progress on it.
Yes, it is going to take serious time, and it is going to take more than one person to be involved, but I think there are enough people who care that something serious can be done to improve its current state. -- 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
