Re: postgresql14-contrib does not install with libpython 3.7

Hi Marcia,

Thank you so much! I'll try that and will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Alex

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On Thursday, October 19th, 2023 at 6:38 PM, Marcia Rocha <mar(dot)rocha(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi, Alex
> This is what I did using Daniel suggestions:
>
> [root]# yum groupinstall "Development tools"
>
> [root]# useradd postgres
>
> [root]# yum install readline-devel
> [root]# yum install zlib-devel
>
> [postgres]$ wget https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v14.2/postgresql-14.2.tar.bz2
>
> [postgres]$ tar -xvf postgresql-14.2.tar.bz2
>
> [root]# mkdir /usr/pgcontrib_py/pgsql-14
>
> [root]# cd postgresql-14.2/
>
> [root]# PYTHON=/bin/python3
>
> [root]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/pgcontrib_py/pgsql-14 --with-python
>
> [root]# cd contrib
>
> [root]# gmake clean
>
> [root]# gmake
>
> [root]# gmake install
>
> After this, the content at /usr/pgcontrib_py/pgsql-14 could be compressed and could be uncompressed under a PG 14 installation at /usr/pgsql-14/
>
> Best regards
> Marcia
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 7:35 PM Alex Williams <valenceshell(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom/Maria,
>>
>> I'm in a similar situation using a Amazon Linux 2 server instance and by default it comes with Python 3.7. I uninstalled Python 3.7 and installed Python 3.6 and the postgres contrib-14 package installed without issue.
>>
>> Of course, there was a recent security patch where we now need to remove Python 3.6 and use Python 3.7 to apply the vulnerability update.
>>
>> Trying it again, with Python 3.7, I get:
>> Error: Package: postgresql14-contrib-14.9-2PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 (pgdg14)
>> Requires: libpython3.6m.so.1.0()(64bit)
>> Available: python3-libs-3.6.2-3.amzn2.0.2.x86_64 (amzn2extra-python3)
>>
>> Can you please let me know what you did to get it work with Python 3.7. I assumed there was a source postgres-contrib14 location I could wget and build against Python 3.7 but I can't find it, so I assume someone is manually adding various extensions to this and creating packages, but offering no source to build with?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>> Yeah ... I don't have a RHEL7 installation handy, but the official Python
>>> installation in my RHEL8 workstation is 3.6.8, so it's impossible to
>>> believe that RHEL7 shipped with Python 3.7. What you have there is a
>>> nonstandard software environment, and if you want to stick with it that's
>>> going to mean doing some of your own building.
>>>
>>> However, rather than compiling directly from source as Daniel suggests,
>>> I'd suggest grabbing the SRPM for the package version you want and
>>> building RPMs from that locally. This is, generally, even easier than
>>> building raw source, and it will make for a much easier transition from
>>> your existing RPM-based installation of PG.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane