[DB-SIG] paramstyles, again (and now voting)

[Carsten Haese]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:03 -0400, Art Protin wrote: 
>     If users can not code to a common standard with Python, they will
> code to a common
> standard with JAVA & JDBC.

Shoehorning all databases into one true interface may be fine for the
Bondage And Domination world of Java, but here in the Python community
we realize that no two database engines are the same.

Cross-platform development and inter-API knowledge transfer are served
by having one mandatory minimum paramstyle. Database-specific needs and
optimizations are served by allowing optional extensions. IMHO this is
the best of both worlds.

-- 
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net