Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'inspired': 0.05; 'plenty': 0.07; 'postgresql': 0.07; 'formatted': 0.09; 'postgres': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sep': 0.09; "they've": 0.09; 'stored': 0.10; 'server,': 0.15; 'desktop.': 0.16; 'name...': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; 'pre': 0.22; 'sends': 0.22; 'posts': 0.23; "i've": 0.23; 'least': 0.25; 'environment.': 0.27; 'installing': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'chris': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; 'gis': 0.29; 'statements': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'fri,': 0.30; 'query': 0.30; '(and': 0.32; 'running': 0.32; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'serve': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'charset :us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'supports': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'url:en': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'build': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'days': 0.60; 'further': 0.61; "you'll": 0.62; 'engines': 0.62; 'improved': 0.62; 'please,': 0.62; 'details,': 0.65; 'dennis': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:31:47 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <506515F8.9020606@tysdomain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-253-103-102.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1348842710 news.xs4all.nl 6972 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56568 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30391 On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:37:21 +1000, Chris Angelico declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > For further details, poke around on the web; I'm sure you'll find > plenty of good blog posts etc. But as for me and my house, we will > have Postgres serve us. > Please, at least use the proper name... "Postgres" is a non-SQL database inspired by Ingres. "PostgreSQL" is Postgres with an SQL query engine. On my side... I have MySQL running on my desktop. When I started, MySQL had a native build that would run on Win9X; PostgreSQL at the time required installing a Cygwin environment. MySQL v5 has improved a lot from those days (v3)... It now supports stored procedures, triggers, a form of views, and prepared statements (though MySQLdb is still pre v5 and sends completely formatted string queries). They've even added GIS capabilities. (And then there is the "drop-in" replacement for MySQL -- MariaDB: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ ) Then again, I've got too many database engines on this desktop: SQLite3, Access/JET, MSDE/SQL Server, Firebird... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/