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diff --git a/databases/py-psycopg2/DESCR b/databases/py-psycopg2/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2f0da1a203d --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/py-psycopg2/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language +(just like pygresql and popy.) It was written from scratch with the aim of +being very small and fast, and stable as a rock. The main advantages of +psycopg are that it supports (well... *will* support) the full Python +DBAPI-2.0 and being thread safe at level 2. + +psycopg is different from the other database adapter because it was designed +for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of +cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. +Every open Python connection keeps a pool of real (UNIX or TCP/IP) connections +to the database. Every time a new cursor is created, a new connection does not +need to be opened; instead one of the unused connections from the pool is +used. That makes psycopg very fast in typical client-server applications that +create a servicing thread every time a client request arrives. + +This is version 2, a complete rewrite of the original code to provide +new-style classes for connection and cursor objects and other +sweet candies. Like the original, psycopg 2 was written with the aim of +being very small and fast, and stable as a rock. |