Re: Feature branches merged to master for 2.8 release

On 10/29/2018 11:49 AM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:35 PM Christian Ferrari <camauz@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>> today I have released LIXA 1.7.1 with Python/Psycopg2 support.
>> To avoid two different methods (get_native_connection() for PostgreSQL and _get_native_connection() for
MySQL/MariaDB)I have created a fork of Psycopg2 https://github.com/tiian/psycopg2/tree/get-native-connection with the
codeprovided by Federico and method "get_native_connection" renamed.
 
>> For the sake of convenience I have created a pull request: https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/pull/798 feel free to
integrateit or to go on with the process you figured out in the past.
 
>> Kind Regards
>> Ch.F.
> 
> I don't know what Federico had decided but I'd very much prefer the
> name without underscore. Methods with underscore don't belong to an
> object interface.

Sorry for the late response, I was KO'ed by the flu. I agree with 
Daniele here but the fact that the *content* of the capsule, i.e., the 
PGconn* can change depending of the libpq version you're loading is 
pretty scary. I'd like to warn the client code (Python warnings to be 
suppressed? mm..) but just prepending an underscore to the method name 
doesn't mean much. If we add `get_native_connection()` then it becomes 
an official and supported psycopg extensions and doesn't make sense to 
mark it as private API.

> There are always differences, in interfaces and in behaviour, between
> dbapi drivers. A private method, returning two objects which are
> different because they are very simply two database drivers, are not
> the place where to start trying to unify interfaces. What you do, if
> you want to deal with both drivers, is to write a wrapper unifying the
> interfaces. I would be ok to adapt other drivers choices, if I agreed
> with them, but I can't agree with an underscore method being
> documented as part of the API: that's internal stuff and totally not
> idiomatic Python.
> 
> My vote goes to have this method name without underscore, but I'll
> leave the final decision to Federico.

Then without it is.

federico

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