Database adapters

[Gerhard Häring]

Frank Miles wrote:
> Gerhard Häring  <gh at ghaering.de> wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> AFAICT this is not true.  For example, I have some Windows machines without
> any postgresql content at all, [...]

I thought we were talking about build requirements, not runtime 
requirements. The runtime requirements are the client libraries only. If 
the Python DB adapter is statically linked (like I do with the pyPgSQL 
win32 binaries, for example) you might even not need anything apart from 
the Python DB adapter.

-- Gerhard