Re: [Pypgsql-users] ImportError with libpq.so.2

[Billy G. A. <bg...@mu...>]

"Todd Reed" wrote:
> I ended up installing pyPgSQL 2.3 from the source distribution, and this did
> resolve the ImportError.  However, there is an incompatibility between
> pyPgSQL 2.3 and PostgreSQL 7.3.2 (and possibly other 7.3.x releases).  The
> system table pg_type used to have a column called "typprtlen" which is no
> longer present in PostgreSQL 7.3.2.  pyPgSQL makes a query on pg_type that
> attempts to access this non-existent column to obtain information for the
> "description" field of cursor objects.  I ended up modifying the query to
> always return -1; I think "typprtlen" was used to find the display width for
> the column.
> 

The 2.3 release does have the typprtlen problem.  The CVS source contains a 
fix for that problem as well as several others.  I would recommend getting the 
latest source from CVS for the latest bug fixes.
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