New submission from Lauren Foutz :
Before the pysqlite module was made standard it could be edited to link with
Berkeley DB SQL instead of SQLite. I am requesting that the Python build add
the ability to link with BDBSQL instead of SQLite.
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Lauren Foutz added the comment:
Before the pysqlite module was made standard it could be edited to link with
Berkeley DB SQL instead of SQLite. I am requesting that the Python build add
the ability to link with BDBSQL instead of SQLite.
Below is a description of how to link pysqlite with
Lauren Foutz added the comment:
Berkeley DB SQL is a separate library from Berkeley DB. It is an SQL engine
that uses the same API as SQLite and uses Berkeley DB as its backend. The
modules that support Berkeley DB lack all of the SQL features and cannot be
used to operate on a Berkeley DB
Lauren Foutz added the comment:
It is not possible to compile pysqlite to link with both, and even if it
was it would not be a good idea, since databases created by bdbsql cannot
be accessed by sqlite, and visa versa.
Because of the incompatibility I think a runtime flag would lead to a lot
of
