[DB-SIG] Some obscurity with paramstyle

[Chris Clark]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>   
>>> On Jul 19, 2011 3:44 AM, "Federico Di Gregorio"
>>> <federico.digregorio at dndg.it> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> At least 2 drivers (psycopg and pysqlite) provide a Python->backend
>>>> mechanism based on PEP 246, "Object Adaptation". If other implementors
>>>> are interested I can write a short explanation about how it works and
>>>> why it was chosen only for the Python->backend path and not for the
>>>> reverse.
>>>>         
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, please. I would like to see that. Adodbapi has an output conversion
>>> mechanism, but I don't like it particularly well.
>>>       
>> For a description:
>>
>> http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/advanced.html#adapting-new-python-types-to-sql-syntax
>> http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/advanced.html#type-casting-of-sql-types-into-python-objects
>>     
>
> While this is a nice system, it's also very slow. It uses function
> calls and string parsing/conversion for adapting each value. This
> works if you only have to insert/fetch a few rows, but won't be
> feasible for larger volumes.
>
> I think we need something more low-level, which tries to
> avoid (Python) function calls if possible, .....

I have to confess the only piece of pep-0246 I read was:

>
>       Rejection Notice
>
>     I'm rejecting this PEP.  Something much better is about to happen;
>     it's too early to say exactly what, but it's not going to resemble
>     the proposal in this PEP too closely so it's better to start a new
>     PEP.  GvR.
>   

Does anyone know what the "better" option was? The date on the pep is a 
number of years ago.

Chris