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[Gerhard Häring]

Jorge Godoy wrote:
> [considering switching PostgreSQL adapters]
> Our main concern with a change is related to having to learn different
> modules to use functions (stored procedures) and code the client. 

In theory, pyPgSQL, psycopg, pgdb, etc. all conform to the DB-API 
specification. And all of them happen to have pyformat as paramstyle. 
So apart from possible subtle differences, you'd only have to change the 
import, and possibly the .connect call.

> [...] I'll take a look (again) at pyPgSQL. I used to use it at
> FreeBSD. How's its use/performance for stored procedures/functions
> with PostgreSQL? [...]

Certainly good enough for my uses. psycopg is heavier optimized (it's 
*all* written in C; it's not readily available for win32, though), but 
in my past experience the database adapter was never the bottleneck.

-- Gerhard