Re: Confusion over Python drivers

On fre, 2010-02-05 at 14:45 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > Does Perl have a similar mess?
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> The primary database interface is DBI and as far as I can see there's
> only one DBI PostgreSQL driver: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/

I think another difference is that the Perl DBI interface is very rich,
whereas the Python DB-API is quite minimal and almost forces people to
write (incompatible) extensions.  The DB-SIG at Python that ought to
drive all this is also quite dead, possibly because everyone has moved
on to SQLAlchemy.