On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > For people who use Python a lot, could I have a list of the deficiencies > in DBAPI? I've got my horse and lance ready. > > Given that SQLAlchemy isn't for everyone, of course ... it couldn't be, > or Django would use it, no?
Here are some to start with: - paramstyle - No direct support of prepared statements [they *tried* to compensate for this with "cached statements", but it's inadequate] - Too many *optional* extensions (Cursor Method .__iter__() being rather notable) http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
