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psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language
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(just like pygresql and popy.) It was written from scratch with the aim of
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being very small and fast, and stable as a rock. The main advantages of
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psycopg are that it supports (well... *will* support) the full Python
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DBAPI-2.0 and being thread safe at level 2.
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psycopg is different from the other database adapter because it was designed
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for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of
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cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs.
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Every open Python connection keeps a pool of real (UNIX or TCP/IP) connections
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to the database. Every time a new cursor is created, a new connection does not
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need to be opened; instead one of the unused connections from the pool is
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used. That makes psycopg very fast in typical client-server applications that
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create a servicing thread every time a client request arrives.
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