[Zope] Postgresql Query.

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:20:22 -0500


Looks like all the guides are still available at
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides (although, agreed, no one would
ever suspect such a thing).



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>
To: "Jason C. Leach" <jleach@mail.ocis.net>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Postgresql Query.


> +-------[ Jason C. Leach ]----------------------
> | hi,
> |
> | I'd like to learn a bit more on how to do a SQL query on a postgres DB
> | from Zope.  Like how to do it, what is better DTML or Python for it, and
> | how would I do it in DTML (I can probably get python working fine).
>
> You have to use a ZSQL Method to access databases from Zope.
> You don't necessarily need to use ZSQL Methods from Python Products, but,
> in reality this turns out to be rather more convenient.
>
> Normally, I would tell you to visit;
>
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/
>
> but, some monkey has designed the interface w/o actually testing it,
> since there's no direct references to the online ZSQL Reference there
> any more, and the online dtml reference shoves you into dtml-var.
>
> Go to there, and then expand Zope Help in the left hand pane, and then
> near the bottom there will be some stuff on ZSQL Methods. Pretty poor
> compared to the online reference that used to be available.
>
> There also used to be direct links to downloadable PDF docs -- also gone.
>
> I know a lot of people weren't happy with the level of documentation, but,
> removing useful (even if it wasn't the best) information from the
> documentation pages isn't the solution.
>
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