pg_proboscis is a pure Python driver/interface for PostgreSQL. It is designed to give maximum flexibility to a user by providing protocol-level prepared statements and cursors. It features basic SSL support, COPY TO/FROM, automatic encoding/decoding of character data, and timestamp support regardless of the backend configuration(integer_datetimes). License: BSD License (revised) Changes: The inability to detect lost connections was fixed. A common exception is raised for both broken pipes (lost connection on send) and zero-length reads (lost connection on recv). The dbapi2 module was fixed to pass Stuart Bishop's DB-API 2.0 test case.

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