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It's great that the project has traction and the team still working in critical features.

I do not know if others have the same experience, but comparing Psycopg2/3 with SQL Alchemy I think the latter is way more robust and more developer friendly, but coming from a DBA background Psycopg sounds way simpler, even for the sake of writing pythonic code.

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This is because they are not on the same level.

If you are using SQL alchemy on a postgres db, you might be using psycopg without knowing it.

Psycopg is the lower level lib that implements the PostgreSQL protocol.

See https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/dialects/postgresql.html#d...

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