Hi,

I am facing the exact same issue. Any work-around for this? 

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 8:15:26 PM UTC+5:30, Tony Locke wrote:
>
> Thanks for your list (and patch) Mariano, that's very useful. I've opened 
> an issue for it at:
>
> https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000/issues/30
>
> On Monday, 3 March 2014 20:26:15 UTC, Mariano Reingart wrote:
>>
>> Including contrib in sys.path would be interesting but there could be 
>> collisions (for example, in this case, witch pg8000 will be imported: the 
>> one installed or the one in gluon.contrib?)
>>
>> Tony: there are other changes needed for web2py (see the diff for web2py 
>> DAL I've attached earlier), the most important are:
>>
>>  * missing __version__ attribute (now it is on setup.py, web2py need it 
>> to differentiate drivers capabilities)
>>  * connect doesn't suppor dsn string anymore (you need to pass keyword 
>> parameters)
>>  * set_client_encoding is not present anymore (you need to execute SQL 
>> SET ...)
>>  * server_version attribute has a leading underscore (_server_version), 
>> this is need to detect server capabilities like JSON
>>
>> Also, for the pg8000 driver currently in web2py, I'd applied many 
>> bugfixes reported in github / launchpad for the original project (mainly 
>> data types, unicode, importing, etc.)
>> Also, I'd improved the psycopg2 compatibility (i.e. set_client_encoding, 
>> autocommit, set_isolation_level), implementing the simple query protocol 
>> (the one that uses psycopg2, and to avoid overhead of non-prepared 
>> statements) and two-phase commit support.
>>
>> The last would be important for web2py distributed_transaction_commit, 
>> but currently gluon.dal is sending raw SQL PREPARE TRANSACTION / COMMIT 
>> PREPARED / ROLLBACK PREPARED without using dbapi proposed methods TPC 
>> Connection Methods (tpc_begin, tpc_prepare, tpc_commit, tpc_rollback, 
>> tpc_recover) 
>>
>> You can see the detail of the changes applied to the web2py contrib 
>> pg8000 here:
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/pg8000/source/list
>>
>> https://github.com/reingart/pg8000/commits/master
>>
>> If this kind of changes could be accepted (psycopg2 compatibility, simple 
>> query protocol, dbapi 2.0 two-pass commit, etc.), I could help to make the 
>> pull requests (note that some could depend on each other). 
>> Sorry I couldn't keep track of pg8000 due lack of time, so I don't know 
>> what direction the project has taken.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Mariano Reingart
>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with Niphlod. I do not like packages that need to be installed 
>>> to work and explicit relative imports is better than absolute imports.
>>> Yet, this is not the only package we had to tweak to include in contrib. 
>>> So this may come up again. Any objection to include contrib in sys.path?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 2 March 2014 18:29:45 UTC-6, Niphlod wrote:
>>>>
>>>> as long as you can use it without installing it in sys.path, then it's 
>>>> fine. If not, it can't be shipped with web2py, just supported as a module.
>>>> I don't like packages that needs a complete install to work. It's true 
>>>> that we have venvs for quite some time now, but a module with less than 10 
>>>> files can accomodate for relative imports quite finely without impairing 
>>>> the code-reader in everyone of us :P
>>>>
>>>> BTW, search for "explicit relative imports" in that doc :-P
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:24:58 PM UTC+1, Tony Locke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I'm a contributor to pg8000 and if there are any changes you need 
>>>>> to get pg8000 working with web2py, let me know. Looking at the absolute 
>>>>> import problem, PEP8 seems to think absolute imports are the way to go:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ 
>>>>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Flegacy.python.org%2Fdev%2Fpeps%2Fpep-0008%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG8T4Krvic_V8TCmT4iog4T5e4pyg>
>>>>>
>>>>> (search for 'relative' in the text) but I'm open to persuasion :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, 1 March 2014 11:18:43 UTC, Joe Barnhart wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Mariano --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to encourage you to keep making pg8000 a viable alternative 
>>>>>> for web2py.  I started with it but had to change to psycopg2 because of 
>>>>>> some issues that postgres handled better under the psy driver.  But I 
>>>>>> think 
>>>>>> pypy could be the future of python and it won't support a driver like 
>>>>>> psycopg2 -- but it could support pg8000 since it is all python.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's just good to have an alternative because no driver does it all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Joe B.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:55:17 PM UTC-8, Mariano Reingart 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Horst:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sadly there have been a lot of changes in pg8000, so it is not 
>>>>>>> backward compatible with the current custom version in web2py. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First, you need to delete the pg8000 folder in contrib, and put the 
>>>>>>> new pg8000 folder (the one with __init__.py) directly in the web2py top 
>>>>>>> level folder (at the same level as gluon).
>>>>>>> Note that the new pg8000 uses absolute imports that will not work if 
>>>>>>> pg8000 is in contrib folder (or it should be added to the PYTHONPATH)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Second, you need to apply the attached patch to gluon/dal.py to:
>>>>>>>  * change the import (and add a missing __version__ attribute)
>>>>>>>  * change connection to pass individual parameters (dsn string is 
>>>>>>> not supported anymore)
>>>>>>>  * change after_connection set_client_encoding to execute SQL
>>>>>>>  * change server_version to _server_version
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll propose (again) to the pg8000 group the changes I've introduced 
>>>>>>> for web2py, so the latest version could be used as a direct drop-in 
>>>>>>> replacement for psycopg2
>>>>>>> IIRC, at some stage the author gave me commit access, but I didn't 
>>>>>>> have time to pull my changes and missed some discussions about the 
>>>>>>> project 
>>>>>>> internals.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> Mariano Reingart
>>>>>>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>>>>>>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Horst Horst <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've tried the latest pg8000 as a drop-in replacement, but it seems 
>>>>>>>> web2py can't import it:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'> Failure to connect, tried 5 times: 
>>>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/sfx/dev/mdb/web2py.
>>>>>>>> app/Contents/Resources/gluon/dal.py", line 7766, in __init__ File 
>>>>>>>> "/Users/sfx/dev/mdb/web2py.app/Contents/Resources/gluon/dal.py", 
>>>>>>>> line 2756, in __init__ File "/Users/sfx/dev/mdb/web2py.
>>>>>>>> app/Contents/Resources/gluon/dal.py", line 795, in find_driver 
>>>>>>>> RuntimeError: no driver available ('psycopg2', 'pg8000')
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I didn't step through it in the debugger, but the module's 
>>>>>>>> __init__.pyc got compiled, so I know web2py attempted an import.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The latest pg8000/__init__.py contains a section which matches the 
>>>>>>>> former interface
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> # For compatibility with 1.8
>>>>>>>> import pg8000 as dbapi
>>>>>>>> DBAPI = dbapi
>>>>>>>> pg8000_dbapi = DBAPI
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> so I'd guess it's a minor problem, nonetheless I'm lost at this 
>>>>>>>> point.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Monday, February 24, 2014 9:32:05 PM UTC+1, Mariano Reingart 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You could try to update pg8000 from the official:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/mfenniak/pg8000
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Let us know if that works, so we could update the one distributed 
>>>>>>>>> with web2py
>>>>>>>>> The one currently distributed in contrib is an older version with 
>>>>>>>>> custom patches (as it was not being mantained at the time it was 
>>>>>>>>> included 
>>>>>>>>> to web2py), but now the official site has updates that could help you 
>>>>>>>>> in 
>>>>>>>>> this case.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mariano Reingart
>>>>>>>>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>>>>>>>>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Horst Horst <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  I'm getting a:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>   <class 'gluon.contrib.pg8000.errors.NotSupportedError'> type 
>>>>>>>>>> oid 114 not mapped to py type
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm wondering what's the best thing to do now? Currently I'm 
>>>>>>>>>> considering:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> - using TEXT instead. But my former JSON strings are then 
>>>>>>>>>> enclosed by "|" which leads to new errors
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> - updating gp8000 (there seems to be a newer version, but the 
>>>>>>>>>> version numbering is confusing)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> - using psycopg2. How can I install this into an Mac OS 
>>>>>>>>>> standalone version of web2py?
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
>>>>>>>>>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
>>>>>>>>>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues)
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