Pylon

Async PostgreSQL mapper for the JALDIS platform. Provides a schema definition DSL, an PyQL query language, OpenSearch integration, and vector index support.

Requirements

• Python 3.13+
• PostgreSQL 18+

Installation

pip install pylon-db

For the native Rust client — PyQL queries from Rust, no Python interpreter involved — add the pylon-db-client crate instead:

[dependencies]
pylon-db-client = "0.4"

It is published as pylon-db-client and imported as pylon_client; see the Rust client reference.

Configuration

Pylon is configured programmatically via Config and its child dataclasses.

import os
from pylon import Client, Config, DatabaseConfig, SearchConfig, ModelConfig

client = Client(
    config=Config(
        database=DatabaseConfig(
            host="localhost",
            port=5432,
            name="mydb",
            user="myuser",
            password=os.environ["PYLON_DB_PASSWORD"],
        ),
        search=SearchConfig(
            host="localhost",
            port=9200,
            password=os.environ["PYLON_SEARCH_PASSWORD"],
        ),
        models=ModelConfig(
            api_style="openai",
            api_url="https://api.openai.com",
            model="text-embedding-3-small",
            secret=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
        ),
    )
)

A pylon.toml file can be used instead via load_config():

from pylon import Client
from pylon.config import load_config

client = Client(config=load_config())

See the configuration reference for the full pylon.toml schema.

Development

Pylon is a Rust workspace plus a Python package; the two are joined by a PyO3 extension module (pylon._core) built with maturin.

Building

maturin develop      # builds pylon._core into the active virtualenv
pip install -e ./    # maturin develop alone can leave a stale .so behind

The test suite fails fast with a "rebuild it" message if pylon._core is older than the Python code being tested against it, rather than silently skipping the affected tests.

Testing

python -m pytest                        # Python suite (live-DB tests excluded)
cargo test --workspace --exclude pylon-py   # Rust suite

--exclude pylon-py is required, and is not the same caveat as excluding it from linting. PyO3 extension modules link against the interpreter through build configuration that only maturin supplies, so a plain cargo build or cargo test on that crate fails at the link step with undefined symbols (_PyList_New, _Py_NoneStruct, …). It still type-checks fine, which is why CI runs cargo clippy -p pylon-py --lib separately — that crate is the only consumer of several pylon-core/pylon-pgcon APIs, so skipping it entirely would let a signature change break the extension unnoticed.

Live-Postgres tests are opt-in and need a throwaway database:

export PYLON_PGCON_TEST_DSN=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/pylon_live_test
cargo test --workspace --exclude pylon-py -- --ignored --test-threads=1
python -m pytest -m live_db

These create and drop schemas freely — never point them at a real database.

Linting

cargo clippy --workspace --exclude pylon-py --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo clippy -p pylon-py --lib -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --check
ruff check pylon tests
ruff format --check pylon tests