Postgres support

[Neil Hodgson]

Edward Wilson:

> Python will only appeal to scientific developers researching
> the "impossible to do" until it handles databases on a first
> class scale. Oh, and another point, ODBC is dead.  Microsoft
> has already abandand it for OLEDB a COM based library.
> References to ODBC need not apply.

   Python's COM support handles ADO which is the most commonly used
interface to OLEDB. Using calldll you can even call the lower level OLEDB
directly although there is generally no need to do so - the reason I did
this was when writing an OLEDB provider to perform experiments and for
testing.

   BTW, Microsoft is already moving on to ADO.NET and, of course, Python for
.NET will be able to use it.

   Neil