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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Low-level database access with Psycopg 2

Psycopg 2 is one of the most popular PostgreSQL drivers for Python. It is compliant to the Python's DB-API 2.0 specification. It is mostly implemented in C and uses the libpq library. It is thread-safe, which means that you can share the same connection object between several threads. It can work both with Python 2 and Python 3.

The official web page of the library is located at http://initd.org/psycopg/.

The psycopg2 driver can be installed with pip on Linux from the command line, as follows:

user@host:~$ sudo pip3 install psycopg2[sudo] password for user: Collecting psycopg2 Downloading psycopg2-2.7.3.1-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (2.6MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.6MB 540kB/s ...
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ISBN: 9781789535464