psycopg-yugabytedb 3.3.4.1rc1

YugabyteDB smart-driver fork of psycopg 3 — adds cluster-aware and topology-aware load balancing

Psycopg 3 is a modern implementation of a PostgreSQL adapter for Python. This is the YugabyteDB smart-driver fork, distributed as psycopg-yugabytedb.

This distribution contains the pure Python package psycopg.

Note

Despite the lack of number in the package name, this package is the successor of psycopg2.

Please use the psycopg2 package if you are maintaining an existing program using psycopg2 as a dependency. If you are developing something new, Psycopg 3 is the most current implementation of the adapter.

YugabyteDB smart driver

This fork (distribution name psycopg-yugabytedb) extends psycopg 3 with cluster-aware and topology-aware connection load balancing for YugabyteDB. The import name stays psycopg — existing code is unchanged. Adding load_balance_hosts=true to the conninfo string opts into the smart driver.

Opt in with one parameter:

import psycopg

conn = psycopg.connect(
    "host=h1,h2,h3 port=5433 user=yugabyte dbname=yugabyte "
    "load_balance_hosts=true"
)

The driver discovers every live tserver via yb_servers() on the first connect, then distributes subsequent connects across them with a least-loaded picker (random tie-break, atomic under a per-cluster lock). One contact point in host=… is enough to bootstrap; the rest of the cluster is discovered.

Smart-driver conninfo parameters:

Parameter	Values	Default	Description
load_balance_hosts	true / false / disable / random	absent	true enables the smart driver. false is equivalent to libpq’s disable. disable / random pass through to libpq unchanged.
topology_keys	cloud.region.zone (comma-separated for multiple keys)	none	Restrict picks to tservers matching at least one placement. Zone may be * for any zone in that cloud/region. Cloud / region wildcards are rejected. Strict in v1 — no cluster-wide fallback if all matching nodes are down.
yb_servers_refresh_interval	seconds (integer)	300	How often to re-query yb_servers(). Clamped to [0, 600].
failed_host_reconnect_delay_secs	seconds (integer)	5	How long to quarantine a node after a failed connect, before reconsidering it. Clamped to [0, 60].

Topology-aware example — bind traffic to one zone:

conn = psycopg.connect(
    "host=h1,h2,h3 port=5433 user=yugabyte dbname=yugabyte "
    "load_balance_hosts=true "
    "topology_keys=cloud1.datacenter1.zoneA"
)

The upstream psycopg-pool connection pool works unchanged with the smart driver — the dispatcher sits underneath the pool, so pool-managed connections honour the configured policy too.

The fork is pre-release. Install with pip install --pre psycopg-yugabytedb or pin to 3.3.4.1rc1. It cannot coexist with upstream psycopg in the same environment (both install into site-packages/psycopg/).

Installation

In short, run the following:

pip install --upgrade pip           # to upgrade pip
pip install "psycopg[binary,pool]"  # to install package and dependencies

If something goes wrong, and for more information about installation, please check out the Installation documentation.

Hacking

For development information check out the project readme.

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