From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-01-13T02:50:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Postgres-ing? Too many choices!

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:18:57AM +0900, Dave Lee wrote:
} 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.

So I went with postgres-pr instead of asking this question, and now I'm
sorry I did. Would it mess things up to install the postgres/ruby-postgres
gem? How do I make sure I'm using the right one?

} Dave
--Greg