[DB-SIG] Re: any 2.0-compliant packages for postgresql? (Andy Dustman)

[Federico Di Gregorio]

On 29 Jun 2001 23:22:18 -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
> At 1:25 AM +0200 6/30/01, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> >On 29 Jun 2001 12:34:39 -0400, Billy G. Allie wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>  I agree with Andy's statement.  That is how I implemented execute in my
> >>  PostgreSQL DB-API 2.0 module, PyPgSQL.  You always use '%s' (or '%(name)s')
> >>  as placeholder in the query string and PyPgSQL will apply the 
> >>correct quoting
> >>  based on the type of the parameter.
> >
> >carefully looking at the dbapi and at the postings on this ml, this is,
> >imo, wrong. the '' should be added by the driver not by the user. is
> >this right? is this what the dbapi is trying to say in footnote 5?
> 
> Looking back at the original postings, it appears that the '' you refer
> to are simply there to set off %s and %(name)s in the paragraph.  They're
> not present in the code in question.  The behavior of the code is just
> what you think it should be.

oops! my fault then. we all agree. back to hacking.

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Federico Di Gregorio
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