Re: [psycopg] Turbo ODBC

On 1/17/17 4:51 AM, Uwe L. Korn wrote:
> One important thing for fast columnar data access is that you don't want
> to have the data as Python objects before they will be turned into a
> DataFrame. Besides much better buffering, this was one of the main
> advantages we have with Turbodbc. Given that the ODBC drivers for
> Postgres seem to be in a miserable state, it would be much preferable to
> have such functionality directly in pyscopg2. Given from meetings with
> people at some PyData conferences that I showed turbodbc to, I can
> definitely say that there are some users out there that would like a
> fast path for Postgres-to-Pandas.
>
> In turbodbc, there are two additional functions added to the DB-API
> cursor object: fetchallnumpy and fetchallarrow. These suffice mostly for
> the typical pandas workloads. The experience from implementing this is
> basically that with Arrow it was quite simple to add a columnar
> interface as most of the data conversions were handled by Arrow. Also
> there was no need for me to interface with any Python types as the
> language "barrier" was transparently handled by Arrow.

I certainly see the advantages to not creating objects. How do you end
up handling NULLs?
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