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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] best postgres interface
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990325012913.1783A-100000@wolfen.com> from "j.
	eidsness" at "Mar 25, 1999 01:33:22 am"
To: tempest@wolfen.com (j. eidsness)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:57:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
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Thus spake j. eidsness
> = 	I see there are a couple of perl interfaces to 
> = postgres.  Does anyone have any comments as to the 
> = best?  I would prefer to use perl but if people 
> = think is this the wrong way to go i would like
> = to know.  
> 
> 	I cannot tell you what the 'best' interface is, but i can tell you
> that *I* use perl (mostly cause i dunno C or C++) and it works fine. It's
> very flexible and returns tuples in a very managable manner. So far i have
> no reason to knock it, other than the fact that you application is already
> writeen in some other language (or you jus hate perl :)

I don't like Perl myself.  I used to use Tcl which has an interface in the
tree as well but since I discovered Python I'm using that almost exclusively.
The interface to it is also in the tree or information can be found at
http://www.druid.net/pygresql/.

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