From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Billy G. Allie <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Announcing PgSQL - a Python DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to PostgreSQL
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:06:40 -0400
Message-ID: <20507.971212000@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010102045.e9AKjhk28688@bajor.mug.org>
References: <200010102045.e9AKjhk28688@bajor.mug.org>
"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
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