Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <4ca94af8$0$1637$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote: > On 10/3/2010 5:40 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message<4ca8c9b6$0$1598$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote: >> >>> (Personally, I like MySQL, but I fear Oracle will mess it up.) >> >> Doesn’t matter whet

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread John Nagle
On 10/3/2010 5:40 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message<4ca8c9b6$0$1598$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote: (Personally, I like MySQL, but I fear Oracle will mess it up.) Doesn’t matter whether Oracle messes up the brand called “MySQL” or not. With Free Software, it’s the so

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <4ca8c9b6$0$1598$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote: > (Personally, I like MySQL, but I fear Oracle will mess it up.) Doesn’t matter whether Oracle messes up the brand called “MySQL” or not. With Free Software, it’s the software that matters, not the brand. And the softw

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , Seebs wrote: > It is stunning how often you can guess which of two packages will be the > source of a bug just by seeing which one hurts more to look at. QOTW. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:21 PM, John Nagle wrote: > On 10/2/2010 3:06 PM, Seebs wrote: > >> I would agree that the word "nonstandard" seems to be a little strong and >> discouraging. sqlite is a source of joy, a small bright point of decent >> and functional software in a world full of misbehaving

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread John Nagle
On 10/2/2010 3:06 PM, Seebs wrote: I would agree that the word "nonstandard" seems to be a little strong and discouraging. sqlite is a source of joy, a small bright point of decent and functional software in a world full of misbehaving crap. While it does omit a few bits of SQL functionality,

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Nobody
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:06:12 -0700, Ravi wrote: > The documentation of the sqlite module at > http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: > > "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the > SQL..." > > But if you see SQLite website they clearly say at > http://sqlite

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Seebs
On 2010-10-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , Seebs wrote: >> sqlite is a source of joy, a small bright point of decent >> and functional software in a world full of misbehaving crap. > Have you learnt how to be selective in your downloads yet? Sadly, as a side-effect of my day job, I

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ravi: > The documentation of the sqlite module at > http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html > says: > > "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the > SQL..." > > But if you see SQLite website they clearly say at > http://sqlite.org/omitted.html that only very few of

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-03 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , Seebs wrote: > sqlite is a source of joy, a small bright point of decent > and functional software in a world full of misbehaving crap. Have you learnt how to be selective in your downloads yet? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:13:11 -0400 Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > > > On 10/02/10 17:06, Seebs wrote: > >> On 2010-10-02, Ravi wrote: > >>> The documentation of the sqlite module at > >>> http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: > >> > >>> ".

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Oct 2, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 10/02/10 17:06, Seebs wrote: >> On 2010-10-02, Ravi wrote: >>> The documentation of the sqlite module at >>> http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: >> >>> "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard >>> variant of the SQL...

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 02 Oct 2010 22:06:58 GMT Seebs wrote: > I would agree that the word "nonstandard" seems to be a little strong and > discouraging. sqlite is a source of joy, a small bright point of decent > and functional software in a world full of misbehaving crap. While it > does omit a few bits of SQL fun

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Tim Chase
On 10/02/10 17:06, Seebs wrote: On 2010-10-02, Ravi wrote: The documentation of the sqlite module at http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the SQL..." I would agree that the word "nonstandard" seems to be a little

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Seebs
On 2010-10-02, Ravi wrote: > The documentation of the sqlite module at > http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html > says: > "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the > SQL..." > But if you see SQLite website they clearly say at > http://sqlite.org/omitted.html > t

Re: SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
Ravi wrote: > The documentation of the sqlite module > at http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html > says: > > "... > allows accessing the database > using a nonstandard variant of the SQL..." > > But if you see SQLite website they clearly say > at http://sqlite.org/omitted.html that onl

SQLite is quite SQL compliant

2010-10-02 Thread Ravi
The documentation of the sqlite module at http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html says: "...allows accessing the database using a nonstandard variant of the SQL..." But if you see SQLite website they clearly say at http://sqlite.org/omitted.html that only very few of the SQL is not implement