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1. Re: [INTERFACES] Announcing PgSQL - a Python DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to PostgreSQL

   Billy G. Allie <bill.allie@mug.org> — 2000-10-10T20:45:43Z

   Peter Eisentraut wrote:
   > Billy G. Allie writes:
   > 
   > > PgSQL v1.0 has been released.  This is the first public release of PgSQL.
   > > It is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql.
   > 
   > Sounds interesting, but isn't "pgsql" an extremely unfortunate choice of
   > name, given that it's already used as an abbreviation for "PostgreSQL"?
   > 
   > -- 
   > Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
   > 
   
   PgSQL is the name of the module you import in Python to access a PostgreSQL
   database from Python using the DB-API 2.0.  The project name on SourceForge
   is "Python Interface to PostgreSQL".  Of course, it there is too much heart
   burn with the modules name, I can change it.
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2. Re: [INTERFACES] Announcing PgSQL - a Python DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to PostgreSQL

   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-10-10T21:06:40Z

   "Billy G. Allie" <Bill.Allie@mug.org> writes:
   > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
   >> Sounds interesting, but isn't "pgsql" an extremely unfortunate choice of
   >> name, given that it's already used as an abbreviation for "PostgreSQL"?
   
   > PgSQL is the name of the module you import in Python to access a PostgreSQL
   > database from Python using the DB-API 2.0.  The project name on SourceForge
   > is "Python Interface to PostgreSQL".  Of course, it there is too much heart
   > burn with the modules name, I can change it.
   
   FWIW, my initial reaction was the same as Peter's: that name is certain
   to cause confusion.  I don't want to try to force you to change it, but
   I think it's not a good choice.
   
   Don't have a better alternative to offer offhand, however.
   
   			regards, tom lane