Overview Love PostgreSQL as a database, but hate having to provision it for your Python programs? The pgserver library spins up a no-maintenance, self-contained instance of PostgreSQL inside a Python ...

Back in the timeframe when LWN started, a friend did a undergraduate thesis comparing MySQL and Postgres (among others). MySQL was faster, but only for very simple queries... and developing more ...

For nearly 30 years, PostgreSQL (a.k.a., Postgres) has arguably been the most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of. Call it the Zelig of databases, its technology either sat ...