Re: [Gnumed-devel] Easy database installer

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Monday 12 July 2004 14:27, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > 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.
IMHO this is not a good idea. I admit I know little about the technicalities. 
But I know one thing. Every piece of code needs to be maintained or else 
quality will degrade. Writing this module might be easy for you guys but what 
about documenting , staying in sync with postgres, enhancing ? Think about 
it. Is it worth the effort ?

All it takes for me on Suse is python setup.py build and python setup.py 
install. On Debian I guess it's even easier (apt-get install pypgsql).

I haven't had time to try your database installer yet.
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