[DB-SIG] Porting a Postgres Python library to Ingres?

[Federico Di Gregorio]

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Il gio, 2002-03-28 alle 13:36, Hamish Lawson ha scritto:
> I need a Python module for Ingres. The only one I have found is at
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>     http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hme/software/
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> However it claims a thread safety of only 0, and I think it may need
> some development in other areas. Therefore I was wondering how feasible
> it would be to port one of the Postgres Python libraries (pgdb, psycopg
> or PyPgSQL) to Ingres; I'm hoping that the historical relationship
> between Ingres and Postgres means that there will be some similarity in
> the C API (does anyone know if this is so?).

psycopg is enginered quite well and all the calls to the database use
only 5-10 functions from libpq. i think should be quite easy to wrap
them in code that converts from ingres api to postgres one. type casting
of the result may require some more work though.

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Federico Di Gregorio
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