[...] is there anyway i can check is it true psycopg is much faster or is it all hyperboll
The overhead of psycopg per cursor row is a lot less. So it makes a difference if you fetch *a lot* of data.
Anyway, if you don't have a performance problem, you don't need to care ;-)
Yes there is a way to try it out, install it and compare :-P
As I said, there is a win32 version of psycopg if that's the only platform you have access to:
Google - first hit:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=psycopg+win32&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=
=>
http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/psycopg/
-- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
