Re: [Gnumed-devel] design queries

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:00:00 +1100
sjtan <address@hidden> wrote:

> - why is pyPgSQL a preferred dbapi module? why can't you just
> use a dbapi that comes with python?
It isn't. The script will search for one of pyPgSQL,  psycopg and pgdb.
> - why can't the backend installation be a script that "cat"s the
> sql scripts in the preferred order into a monolithic script file,
> createdb and then psql -f monolithic.sql.file ?
The scripts use postgresql introspection to autogenerate triggers
for referential integrity, and backend database auditing: they
need to talk to a 'live' database while they are doing this.

I am currently working on an extension to autodetect postgres connection
parameters, hopefully the installation script will be very easy to use.

Ian

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