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diff --git a/databases/py-psycopg/pkg-descr b/databases/py-psycopg/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..89896794c063 --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/py-psycopg/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming +language. 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 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. + +WWW: http://initd.org/software/psycopg + +- Alex Rodioukov <simuran@shaw.ca> |