[orm-devel] Re: ORM

[Diedrich Vorberg]

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From: "Uwe (Peter) Feldtmann" <uwe@microshare.com.au>
Date: 06 Dec 2002 09:49:04 +0000
Subject: ORM
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Hi Diedrich,

I am building an Open Source Accounting package in Python using
postgres, psycopg, wxPython etc and orm looks like it might be just what
I needed as I'm new to all the above.

My questions are
	Does orm handle table inheritance?
	What are the performance and memory penalties for using orm?
	Can orm be used to create the tables based on the column defs?
	Do all the table classes need to be imported at once or can 
	  we do "from beans import person, address"?

Sorry if my questions appear silly. I'm new to Python and to SQL. I have
been developing accounting systems for 22 years using 4GL's and this
will be my last one so any assistance or advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Yours,
Uwe Feldtmann.




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