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| author | Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com> | 2012-10-18 18:24:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Mike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com> | 2012-10-18 18:24:15 -0400 |
| commit | 017989ce8bca6e0540701fe0221fcfc556f7aba8 (patch) | |
| tree | b7d0acba55f2af66d7c90b1042b8fd397caad53d /lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py | |
| parent | ba67f7dbc5eb7a1ed2a3e1b56df72a837130f7bb (diff) | |
| download | sqlalchemy-017989ce8bca6e0540701fe0221fcfc556f7aba8.tar.gz | |
- move out maxdb
- begin consolidating docs for dialects to be more self contained
- add a separate section for "external" dialects
- not sure how we're going to go with this yet.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py index 4a83f2332..b99040038 100644 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/firebird/base.py @@ -7,10 +7,19 @@ """ Support for the Firebird database. -Connectivity is usually supplied via the kinterbasdb_ DBAPI module. +DBAPI Support +------------- -Dialects -~~~~~~~~ +The following dialect/driver options are available: + +``firebird://``- uses kinterbasdb_ + +``firebird+kinterbasdb://`` - uses kinterbasdb_ + +``firebird+fdb://`` - uses fdb_ + +Firebird Dialects +----------------- Firebird offers two distinct dialects_ (not to be confused with a SQLAlchemy ``Dialect``): @@ -27,7 +36,7 @@ support for dialect 1 is not well tested and probably has incompatibilities. Locking Behavior -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +---------------- Firebird locks tables aggressively. For this reason, a DROP TABLE may hang until other transactions are released. SQLAlchemy does its best @@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ The above use case can be alleviated by calling ``first()`` on the all remaining cursor/connection resources. RETURNING support -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +----------------- Firebird 2.0 supports returning a result set from inserts, and 2.1 extends that to deletes and updates. This is generically exposed by |