minipg 0.4.0

Yet another PostgreSQL database driver

Yet another Python PostgreSQL database driver

Requirements

• Python 2.7, 3.3+

Installation

Install as a package

$ pip install minipg

Install as a module

$ cd $(PROJECT_HOME)
$ wget https://github.com/nakagami/minipg/raw/master/minipg/minipg.py

Example

Query:

import minipg
conn = minipg.connect(host='localhost',
                    user='postgres',
                    password='secret',
                    database='database_name')
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute('select foo, bar from baz')
for r in cur.fetchall():
   print(r[0], r[1])
conn.close()

COPY TO:

import minipg
conn = minipg.connect(host='localhost',
                    user='postgres',
                    password='secret',
                    database='database_name')
f = open('foo.txt', 'bw')
conn.execute('COPY foo_table TO stdout', f)
f.close()
conn.close()

COPY FROM:

import minipg
conn = minipg.connect(host='localhost',
                    user='postgres',
                    password='secret',
                    database='database_name')
f = open('foo.txt', 'br')
conn.execute('COPY foo_table FROM stdin', f)
f.close()
conn.close()

Restrictions and Unsupported Features

• Authentication METHOD only can ‘trust’ or ‘md5’ in pg_hba.conf.
• Not full support for array data types.
• Not support for prepared statements.