Dropped references to psycopg 1 from readme and install.

Nowaday not many remember it: I think it's useless to make comparisons.
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option. psycopg2 will work correctly even with a non-thread-safe libpq but option. psycopg2 will work correctly even with a non-thread-safe libpq but
libpq will leak memory. libpq will leak memory.
While psycopg 1.x used autoconf for its build process psycopg 2 switched to psycopg2 uses distutils for its build process, so most of the process is
the more pythonic setup.py. Before building psycopg look at setup.cfg file executed by the setup.py script. Before building psycopg look at
and change any settings to follow your system (or taste); then: setup.cfg file and change any settings to follow your system (or taste);
then:
python setup.py build python setup.py build

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******************************************** ********************************************
psycopg2 is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming psycopg2 is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. This is version 2, a complete rewrite of the original code to language. psycopg2 was written with the aim of being very small and fast,
provide new-style classes for connection and cursor objects and other and stable as a rock.
sweet candies. Like the original, psycopg2 was written with the aim of
being very small and fast, and stable as a rock.
psycopg2 is different from the other database adapter because it was psycopg2 is different from the other database adapter because it was
designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy
lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or
UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provide full asycronous operations for the really UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provide full asycronous operations and support
brave programmer. for coroutine libraries.
There are confirmed reports of psycopg 1.x compiling and running on Linux psycopg2 can compile and run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS X and
and FreeBSD on i386, Solaris, MacOS X and win32 architectures. psycopg2 Windows architecture. It supports Python versions from 2.4 onwards and
does not introduce build-wise incompatible changes so it should be able to PostgreSQL versions from 7.4 onwards.
compile on all architectures just as its predecessor did.
psycopg2 is free software ("free as in freedom" but I like beer too.) psycopg2 is free software ("free as in freedom" but I like beer too.)
It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or

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"""Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter """Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming psycopg2 is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. This is version 2, a complete rewrite of the original code to language. psycopg2 was written with the aim of being very small and fast,
provide new-style classes for connection and cursor objects and other sweet and stable as a rock.
candies. Like the original, psycopg 2 was written with the aim of being
very small and fast, and stable as a rock.
psycopg is different from the other database adapter because it was psycopg2 is different from the other database adapter because it was
designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy
lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or
UPDATEs. psycopg 2 also provide full asycronous operations for the really UPDATEs. psycopg2 also provide full asycronous operations and support
brave programmer. for coroutine libraries.
""" """
classifiers = """\ classifiers = """\