[pypy-dev] when will pypy support psycopg2?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Yan Chunlu <springrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry I somehow replied to your personally, sorry for disturbing.
> just didn't get used to gmail's new UI....
>
> about quora's adoption, brought me a lot confidence. thanks a lot! will test it!
>
> I am curious that does it hard for pypy to add those data type?
> like PyByteArray_Type, PyMemoryView_Type and PyInterpreterState

It's usually a painful experience to add new stuff to cpyext. But
also, it does not necesarilly give you confidence that it'll work,
since emulating CPython C API is tricky and tiny problems with
refcounts can lead to segfaults that don't occur on cpython for
obscure reasons.

>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Yan Chunlu <springrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> okay, thanks! I have installed psycopg2ct and will give a try.
>>>
>>> but since my app is serving several millions requests per day, I am
>>> really worrying if it suitable for production usage.
>>
>> You mean because it's relatively new? you should test it and see how
>> it works, FYI quora moved to the ctypes based new DB binding and they
>> never complained, seems to be working just fine for them.
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Yan Chunlu <springrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> thanks for the quick reply.  seems psycopg2 is "An (experimental)
>>>>> implementation" based on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/psycopg2ct
>>>>
>>>> the other way around
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and also, both lib need to make many changes to the code...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> they should not, they all support DB API
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Yan Chunlu <springrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> based on the irc chat here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.tismer.com/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/pypy.2011-11-02.log.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PyByteArray_Type, PyMemoryView_Type and PyInterpreterState are missing
>>>>>>> from the headers. http://codepad.org/FYkhcZKf
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> just wonder is there any schedule about this? I think psycopg2 is
>>>>>>> crucial for many developers to adopt pypy.  thanks!
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Use psycopg2-ct or pg8000 instead, those work fine in PyPy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> fijal
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