~~**Maintenance ("fork")** of https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000 including changes (pull requests), reported fixes and new features. Also includes fixes for https://launchpad.net/pg8000, a earlier repository of the original author.~~

NOTE: as 2012-11-29, github repository has new activity and some different fixes https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000 (please look there too)

About pg80000

It is one of many PostgreSQL interfaces for the Python programming language.

pg8000 is somewhat distinctive in that it is written entirely in Python and does not rely on any external libraries (such as a compiled python module, or PostgreSQL’s libpq library).

This pure-python connector approach allows to run it where C compiled libraries cannot be installed, it allows deeper access to PostgreSQL protocol internals and it enables easier flexibility and extensibility for Python developers (like support for parameterized prepared statements using qmark, numeric, named, format or pyformat DBAPI paramstyle).

Highlights

Changelog of the 1.09 maintenance release are: * two-phase commit support * autocommit feature * server_version property * sevaral bug fixes for almost all reported issues since 1.08 (2010-06-08)

Supported features added in past versions: * DBAPI 2.0 compatibility * paramstyle: qmark, numeric, named, format or pyformat * copy_to and copy_from * notifies and notifies_lock * Map postgres < – > python encodings * PostgreSQL array (list) and RECORD (dict) types * Interval, Decimal and datetime (with tz) * ssl and unix_socket

Documentation

• Interactive Example
• DBAPI 2.0 PostgreSQL Interface
• Release History

Downloads

• pg8000-1.09.win32.exe (windows intaller)
• pg8000-1.09.tar.gz (source tarball)
• pg8000-1.09.zip (source compressed)

Support

• See the issue list and report a new issue
• Please use this site instead of https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000, as the former seems no longer maintained.
• For further discussions or help, please write to pg8000@googlegroups.com or visit pg8000 Google Group