Re: Latest developments in psycopg3

On 08/02/21, Adrian Klaver (adrian.klaver@aklaver.com) wrote:
> On 2/8/21 4:16 AM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:

> > 1) We can provide a feature to select the type of cursor that is not
> > much dissimilar from psycopg2
> > 2) Do we need DictCursor/RealDictCursor? ISTM that one of the two
> > would be sufficient? Possibly an object inheriting from a Python dict
> > instead of emulating it so that e.g. json.dumps()
> 
> RealDictCursor is what I use primarily as it plays well with json.*. I have
> used NamedTupleCursor for those things that play better with dot notation. I
> very rarely use DictCursor anymore as it's dual nature seemed to get in the
> way more then it helped.

Your comments also suggests the possibility of having a convenience
method, something like ._asjson() perhaps to allow rows or entire result
sets json encoded.