Damn it feels good to be a (perl) gangsta

Saturday, February 6. 2010

Damn it feels good to be a (perl) gangsta

The recent debate Bruce Momjian has started on the confusing mess that is the Python drivers for PostgreSQL made me feel very glad I just don't use any of them. As Just Another Perl Hacker, I am so glad that we have a good, well defined and fairly stable database API for Perl, namely DBI, and a pretty darn good implementation for PostgreSQL in DBD::Pg.

Add to these some of the higher end modules like DBIx::Class for use in frameworks and ORMs, and SQL::Translator for dealing with multiple database flavors, and Perl programmers doing database work are in pretty good shape.

Posted by Andrew Dunstan in PostgreSQL at 16:33 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hello, what recent debate? I follow planet python, planet postgresql and the various reddits and hacker news and I've seen nothing of this.

Link, please!

#1 Adrian on 2010-02-07 00:00 (Reply)

Found it: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-02/msg00351.php

How good is the interwebs with its hyperlinks?

#1.1 Adrian on 2010-02-07 00:13 (Reply)

And we have SQLAlchemy. Now, who's your daddy?

#2 Pythoneer on 2010-02-09 15:25 (Reply)

You're missing the point. SQLAlchemy might be very good, but the low level Python drivers for Postgres are a mess, as the debate on -hackers illustrates. You can't build a good ORM on bad drivers.

#2.1 Andrew Dunstan on 2010-02-09 16:19 (Reply)

The bad news is that you still have to use Perl. ;-P

#3 Anne Onimos on 2010-02-11 19:32 (Reply)

To me that's like saying the bad news is you're going to be rich, happy and successful.

#3.1 Andrew Dunstan on 2010-02-11 20:03 (Reply)

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