Re: About pyvertica (a clone of pyscopg2)

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> wrote:
> Hi Angel,
>
> I hope you don't bother I added the psycopg mailing list in cc: other
> people can be interested in your work. :)
>
> On 06/09/11 20:22, Angel Freire wrote:
>> Hi, my name is Angel and since a few weeks now I've been working with
>> some database engine called "Vertica" it's a column-oriented db based
>> on PostgreSQL, it's so based on PostgresSQL that with a few little
>> modifications pyscopg2 is able to connect to it and perform queries
>> without any problems. I've found the patch needed to make pyscopg2 run
>> with Vertica in StackOverflow
>> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2469167/merge-excel-cells-using-pyexcelerator).
>
> I can't find a patch there. :(

It may have been this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2695684/using-an-odbc-application-with-a-jdbc-driver

Looks like Vertica has a few differences in the types oid.
Unfortunately there is at least a conflict: from the patch I see oid
16 is used by Vertica as a decimal type, while Postgres uses the same
oid for the bool type. A solution could be to detect vertica at
connection time (which seems done by checking server_version = 0, I
don't know if there is a more robust way) and re-organize the
typecaster map accordingly.

-- Daniele