Database adapters

[Gerhard Häring]

Ed Leafe wrote:
>     I'm using Python for my database work, and need to be able to 
> connect to various servers, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and 
> others. There are a number of adapters available for each of these, but 
> I run into the same problem with all: I need to have that database 
> server installed on the machine for which I need to build the adapter. 
> Since my development work is done on a workstation and not a server, 
> this causes a problem. [...]

That's not true. You have to have the include files and libraries installed.

>     How do I accomplish this? How can I build, say, psycopg so that I 
> can connect from my dev machine to a server that's on another host 
> somewhere on the internet?

You'll need the PostgreSQL development files (on Debian: pgsql-devel) 
installed. Plus, for psycopg, the mxDateTime header files.

-- Gerhard