From: Dave Lee <davelee.com@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T02:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Postgres-ing? Too many choices!

On 1/12/06, Dave Howell <groups@grandfenwick.net> wrote:
> it appears that there are three different Gems for talking to a
> PostgreSQL database.
>
>         postgres (0.7.1)
>         postgres-pr (0.4.0)
>         ruby-postgres (0.7.1)
>
> What are the differences between them? How do I pick one?

postgres and ruby-postgres are the same project.  all the gems for
ruby-postgres are post 0.7.1 snapshots.  I've been saying this for a
while, but I intend to release a 0.8.0 release real soon now.  I will
probably release the most recent snapshot of the ruby-postgres gem as
the 0.8.0 release, so it should be pretty functional.  it contains
many fixes and improvements over the postgres-0.7.1 gem.  postgres-pr
is a pure ruby extension, it doesn't rely on PostgreSQL's libpq client
library.  AFAIK, it's not as functional as the native extensions.

Dave