Postgres

[harper-maintainer]

Harper’s Q&A: psycopg2-binary on macOS

Q: What’s the issue?
The psycopg2-binary package fails to install on macOS CI runners due to the absence of pg_config, even though it's a binary distribution.

Q: Why is this happening?
The CI process attempts to build psycopg2 from source instead of using the precompiled wheel.

Q: How is this being addressed?
Two potential solutions are proposed:

• Switch to using psycopg2 instead of psycopg2-binary for optional dependencies.
• Find a way to ensure the binary wheel is used during installation.

Q: What’s the current workaround?
PostgreSQL is not installed in the CI environment as a temporary measure.

Q: Who is handling this?
The issue was opened by @bniladridas and is currently assigned to them.

Q: What’s the related milestone?
This issue is associated with the Git TUI v1.0 milestone.

[bniladridas]

Harper’s Q&A: Postgres / psycopg2 on macOS

Q: What’s the issue?
The psycopg2-binary package fails to install on macOS CI runners because the CI attempts to build from source instead of using the binary wheel.

Q: How can this be addressed?
Switch to psycopg2 for optional dependencies, or ensure the binary wheel is used during installation.

Q: Current workaround?
PostgreSQL is not installed in the CI environment temporarily.

Q: Who is responsible?
The issue was opened by the maintainer and is being tracked for the Git TUI milestone.