[DB-SIG] db paramstyle for arrays

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Lee Harr wrote:
>> LH> Is there a special DB API style for inserting array values
>> LH> in
>> LH> to a database?
>>
>> What DB API module do you use?  For pyPgSQL the answer is in FAQ
>> (http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/pypgsql-faq.html):
>> If you want to use ARRAYs, you'll now need to wrap your (nested)
>> lists with PgSQL.PgArray
>>
> 
> I am using psycopg.
> 
> grep'ng through the psycopg distribution does not reveal
> mention of ARRAY, so I guess it does not support that.
> 
> Is there anything about it in the DB API? I looked through pep 249
> but I do not see anything. I could create a patch
> for psycopg to do something like the way pyPgSQL does it, but
> it would be good if they were all the same...

The DB API supports doing bulk inserts via .executemany(),
but I'm not sure whether the same thing as inserting ARRAYs
which seem to be a postgresql special data type from your
description.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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