Getting started with Psycopg 3¶

This section of the documentation will explain how to install Psycopg and how to perform normal activities such as querying the database or loading data using COPY.

Contents:

  • Installation
    • Supported systems
    • Binary installation
    • Local installation
    • Pure Python installation
    • Installing the connection pool
    • Handling dependencies
  • Basic module usage
    • Main objects in Psycopg 3
    • Shortcuts
    • Connection context
    • Adapting pyscopg to your program
  • Passing parameters to SQL queries
    • execute() arguments
    • Danger: SQL injection
    • Binary parameters and results
  • Adapting basic Python types
    • Booleans adaptation
    • Numbers adaptation
    • Strings adaptation
    • Binary adaptation
    • Date/time types adaptation
    • JSON adaptation
    • Lists adaptation
    • UUID adaptation
    • Network data types adaptation
  • Adapting other PostgreSQL types
    • Composite types casting
    • Range adaptation
    • Multirange adaptation
    • Hstore adaptation
    • Geometry adaptation using Shapely
  • Transaction management
    • Autocommit transactions
    • Transaction blocks
    • Transaction characteristics
  • Using COPY TO and COPY FROM
    • Writing data row-by-row
    • Binary copy
    • Reading data row-by-row
    • Copying block-by-block
    • Asynchronous copy support
  • Differences from psycopg2
    • Server-side binding
    • Different cast rules
    • You cannot use IN %s with a tuple
    • Different adaptation system
    • Copy is no more file-based
    • with connection
    • callproc() is gone
    • client_encoding is gone
    • What’s new in Psycopg 3

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  • Getting started with Psycopg 3
    • Installation
    • Basic module usage
    • Passing parameters to SQL queries
    • Adapting basic Python types
    • Adapting other PostgreSQL types
    • Transaction management
    • Using COPY TO and COPY FROM
    • Differences from psycopg2
  • More advanced topics
  • Psycopg 3 API
  • Release notes

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