[Pythonmac-SIG] python & postgresql: libpython?

[Scott Frankel]

New to databases, I'm doing some leg-work to see which open source db to
use:  postgresql or mysql.  Without trying to start a flame war, I have 
questions
regarding postgresql installation & python, which is the scripting 
language I'd like
to use to interface with it.

The installation docs warn that I might have to rebuild part of my 
python install
to create a python shared library.


Questions:

- Does the standard 2.3 MacPython install build a shared library?  If 
so, it doesn't
   appear to be called "libpython," as the postgresql docs suggest.

- How would one rebuild part of the python install to create a shared 
library?

[and on thinner ice ...]
- All things being equal (which they're not!), which db has more 
robust/mature
   python interfaces to choose from?


Thanks in advance!
Scott