Re: How to control which Python interpreter Postgres uses?

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 04:08:01PM -0700, Wells Oliver wrote:
> Apologies if I'm misunderstanding, but you can specify a virtual env (so
> any interpreter) as we did here:

This probably wouldn't allow access to the plpy server access
module. Only simplest stored procedures would work without the
ability to work with the database (and python version is usually
less of importance for such simple scripts).

> CREATE FUNCTION slack (msg text)
> RETURNS boolean
> AS $$
> hook = 'https://...'
> activate_this = '/opt/python/env/bin/activate_this.py'
> exec(open(activate_this).read(), dict(__file__=activate_this))
> from slack_sdk.webhook import WebhookClient
> import ssl
> ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
> ssl_context.check_hostname = False
> ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
> webhook = WebhookClient(hook, ssl=ssl_context)
> webhook.send(text=msg)
> return True
> $$ LANGUAGE plpython3u;
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM Ni Ne <nineoften(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Would I recompile the plpython package or postgres itself?

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