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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows – Basics
In my previous post, I wrote: Although I have not yet personally run the [Pyrseas] unit tests on Windows …, I believe the tox setup should be quite portable …, since the tests only depend on Python and...
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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 2
In the previous post, I covered installation of Git, PostgreSQL and Python under Windows in order to set up a Pyrseas testing and development environment. Today, we’ll explore installation of the...
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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 3
As a commenter mentioned in response to Part 2, an alternative to using pip install psycopg2, which requires that you first install VC++ 2008 Express, is to download and install the Windows port, aka...
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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 4
At the end of Part 2, I suggested those who were anxious to start testing could try python tests\dbobject\test_schema.py right after installing psycopg2, and implied everything would work just fine by...
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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 5
I’ve got the Perl on Windows blues … Aside from PL/pgSQL, the base distribution of PostgreSQL supports three procedural languages: Perl, Python and Tcl. When creating Pyrseas unit tests for languages...
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Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Windows, Part 6
Alliterative locales, languages, collations. A tox on all your houses (test combinations). The last item to fix in the Pyrseas unit tests so that they run on Windows is related to the PostgreSQL 9.1...
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A couple of Pyrseas enhancements
Based on feedback from users and contributors, Pyrseas now sports two enhancements. Multi-line String Formatting Up to Pyrseas 0.6, long textual elements such as view definitions, function source text...
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A Pythonic, TTM-inspired interface to PostgreSQL – Requirements
Several moons ago, I started a series of posts about “designing and implementing a generic end user interface for PostgreSQL.” After a while, the series got sidetracked by other issues. More recently,...
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Attributes in the Pythonic, TTM-inspired interface to PostgreSQL
The Third Manifesto‘s Relational Model (RM) prescription 9 defines a relation heading as “a set of ordered pairs or attributes of the form <A,T>,” where A is the name of the attribute and T is...
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Tuples in the Pythonic, TTM-inspired interface to PostgreSQL
The Third Manifesto formally describes tuple types (RM prescription 6), tuple values (prescription 9), tuple variables (prescription 12) as well as other tuple-related elements. As mentioned in the...
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Pyrseas contributions solicited
Do you use PostgreSQL and truly believe it’s “the world’s most advanced open source database” and that its upcoming 9.3 release will make it even more awesome? Do you also use Python and believe it’s...
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ANFSCD: Revisiting the Web Server
Nearly two years ago, I was considering which Python web framework to use for a user interface to Postgres: CherryPy, Flask, Werkzeug? Not entirely satisfied with the choices, I started reviewing even...
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Is This Relational?
This post was prompted by Hans-Juergen Schoenig’s Common mistakes: UNION vs. UNION ALL because it touches on one of my pet peeves: the claim that some feature of SQL exemplifies or conforms to the...
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Multisets and the Relational Model
In a comment to my previous post, David Fetter challenged me to “find a case for multisets. That we’re stuck with them doesn’t mean they’re useless.” My response was that I couldn’t help him because...
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Most Liked and Disliked Programming Languages
Vasudev Ram pointed readers to a Hacker News poll on the subject. While the raw numbers per language are interesting, I think the percentages of Like and Dislike vs. the total votes cast for a given...
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The Future of Pyrseas: Part 1
In the early days of the Pyrseas project, I read about some open source projects being abandoned due to their developers losing interest or perhaps becoming involved elsewhere and thought to myself...
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The Future of Pyrseas: Part 2
When I started working on Pyrseas, I reviewed several other products. Robert Brewer’s Post Facto was probably the one with the most unique design. Although it compared database schemas in order to...
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The Future of Pyrseas: Part 3
The second Andromeda feature, aside from schema version control, that Pyrseas wanted to rescue was the automatic generation of search and detailed editing screens. It is somewhat amazing that 40 years...
View ArticleThe Future of Pyrseas, revisited
Over two years ago, I lamented that this blog had remained silent for too long and about the lack of development activity on the Pyrseas project. I also announced immediate and longer term plans....
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