Postgresql: plpython may be removed

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:58:10 -0500, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>    Scott> This thread is going on the Postgresql email list.  It appears
>    Scott> that support for Python as a Postgresql scripting language will
>    Scott> not last unless some knowlegable folks can assist.
>
>How so?  I use PostgreSQL from Python and have never heard of plpython.  I
>use psycopg which is well-supported, albeit not by the PostgreSQL folks.
>Similarly, mysql-python (aka MySQLdb) is stable and widely used to talk to
>MySQL databases even though it's not supported by the MySQL folks.  I
>suspect that sort of relationship is true of most packages and their Python
>interfaces.
>
I'm not familiar with the situation, but maybe they're talking about server-side
scripted processing controlled/dispatched by the db engine?

Regards,
Bengt Richter