Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types for DB APIs

2007-05-07 Thread Carsten Haese
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:53 -0400, Art Protin wrote: > Database specific information can almost never be handled in a generic > way > and what can be made generic should not be tied to types in the API. We agree on both counts. > (This opens the question to how to design DBMS specific features in

Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types for DB APIs

2007-05-07 Thread Art Protin
Dear Carsten, et al., Carsten Haese wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:04 -0400, Art Protin wrote: First, I believe that nothing returned from a call to cursor.fetchXXX() should be of a type bound to the API/interface. I recognize that this is a difficult constraint but the values need to u

[DB-SIG] pyPgSQL for Python2.5 ?

2007-05-07 Thread Marion Balthasar
Hello list, does anyone know if I can get a precompiled win32-binary Package of pyPgSQL for Python 2.5 ? At the homepage there are only ones for 2.4 and earlier, also a platformindependent source package (which I also tried to build, but I'm using mingw32 development environment, and it doesn't