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| author | Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> | 2010-02-11 05:17:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> | 2010-02-14 00:39:48 +0100 |
| commit | 0694b85e59a609fbaa0a22792a2b4593b3440e82 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a969d20b21ae8b16e0be399491c5282d79251e6 /doc/extensions.rst | |
| parent | 9a6c4c4c93c5def0fa808876d9f2aacebbe1ac2f (diff) | |
| download | psycopg2-0694b85e59a609fbaa0a22792a2b4593b3440e82.tar.gz | |
Added documentation about Unicode handling.
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diff --git a/doc/extensions.rst b/doc/extensions.rst index 5af5fbe..9fdaaf1 100644 --- a/doc/extensions.rst +++ b/doc/extensions.rst @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ The module exports a few exceptions in addition to the :ref:`standard ones It is a subclass of :exc:`~psycopg2.OperationalError` + .. index:: pair: Isolation level; Constants @@ -360,3 +361,36 @@ can be read from the :data:`~connection.status` attribute. Used internally. + +Additional database types +------------------------- + +The :mod:`!extensions` module includes typecasters for many standard +PostgreSQL types. These objects allow the conversion of returned data into +Python objects. All the typecasters are automatically registered, except +:data:`UNICODE` and :data:`UNICODEARRAY`: you can register them using +:func:`register_type` in order to receive Unicode objects instead of strings +from the database. See :ref:`unicode-handling` for details. + +.. data:: BINARYARRAY +.. data:: BOOLEAN +.. data:: BOOLEANARRAY +.. data:: DATE +.. data:: DATEARRAY +.. data:: DATETIMEARRAY +.. data:: DECIMALARRAY +.. data:: FLOAT +.. data:: FLOATARRAY +.. data:: INTEGER +.. data:: INTEGERARRAY +.. data:: INTERVAL +.. data:: INTERVALARRAY +.. data:: LONGINTEGER +.. data:: LONGINTEGERARRAY +.. data:: ROWIDARRAY +.. data:: STRINGARRAY +.. data:: TIME +.. data:: TIMEARRAY +.. data:: UNICODE +.. data:: UNICODEARRAY + |