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Development environment instructions should describe requirement for postgresql libraries #9649

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Without the postgresql libraries, make devdata fails when installing requirements. Specifically, installation of psycopg2 fails with errors that include:

Error: pg_config executable not found.
      
pg_config is required to build psycopg2 from source.  Please add the directory
containing pg_config to the $PATH or specify the full executable path with the
option:

    python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...

or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.

If you prefer to avoid building psycopg2 from source, please install the PyPI
'psycopg2-binary' package instead.

For further information please check the 'doc/src/install.rst' file (also at
<https://www.psycopg.org/docs/install.html>).

There are potentially a couple of solutions:

  • Document that postgresql libraries are required for installation (postgresql-dev, libpq-dev, or whatever the distribution in question calls for.
  • Depend on psycopg2-binary instead as the error message suggests. This might necessarily be as easy as it seems, since it's not just a direct specified dependency but I think may also be a transitive dependency.
  • Upgrade to the psycopg package (the new name given to "psycopg3"), which does not appear to have this problem. That's probably the best idea in the long run since version 2 of psycopg is deprecated, but may involve other updates, too.

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