Re: [Gnumed-devel] Easy database installer

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > > I have written a script which wraps the installation of the GNUMed 
> > > database.
> > > Go to http://gnumed.net/~ihaywood/ and try it out.
> > I really like that you reused the code in
> > bootstrap-gm_db_system.py by importing it. That is how I
> > intended it to be used.
> I had to hack it into shape a little bit: you can't have a "-" in a module 
> name,
> and it has to raise BootstrapErrors so the calling code can display 
> meaningful error
> messages. Is it acceptable to fold these changes back into the main tree?
Of course, be my guest !! :-)

> > Last time I tried the pyPgSQL people didn't even react to
> > clearly documented patches posted on their list.
> Take a look at the documented postgresql wire protocol:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/protocol.html
> I agree with Horst, this doesn't look too hard.
> I'm not sure how much of a speed penalty a pure Python module would impose,
> given most of the work is converting datastructures from C to Python, which 
> the 
> existing libraries have to do anyway.
While surely tempting I shall resist :-))

Karsten
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