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Can't "install" plpython3u - postgresql

I'm trying to use python language in postgresql. Something like this:

create or replace function test(_a integer) returns integer as $$

if _a%2==0:
    return 'even'
elif _a%3==0:
    return 'mult of 3'

else:
    return _a

$$ language plpython3u

But when I run this, I get this error:

ERROR:  language "plpython3u" does not exist
HINT:  Use CREATE EXTENSION to load the language into the database.
SQL state: 42704

Then, I tried to create the extension of the python language by executing:

create extension plpython3u

Which tells me the following error:

ERROR:  could not load library "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/12/lib/plpython3.dll": The specified module could not be found.

SQL state: 58P01

I checked if the plpython3.dll file is there. Then I read something about modifying the postgresql configure file by compiling postgres from the source code and adding --with python (I found some of this here).

My problem is that I don't know how to actually do this. My OS is windows server 2019 64 bits, python version is 3.7.4 and postgresql version is 12.2-1 (pgadmin 4.18).

How can I solve this?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Getting python to work with postgres seems to be version or versions dependent. I currently have postgres 9.6. and I had installed python 3.9. I had previously installed the extension plpython3u in postgres but time had gone by and I moved to another computer. When I tried to run a procedure based on Python, I got an error. I downloaded dependency walker, from here: https://www.opcsupport.com/s/article/How-do-I-figure-out-why-my-DLL-is-failing-Microsoft-Dependency-Walker or here: https://www.dependencywalker.com/. When I opened up the dependency walker, I dragged the plpython3.dll into the dependency walker, the .dll is located here: F:\pg96\lib. I then got the following screen -- below -- that seemed to indicate I needed to install a Python 3.7. I downloaded Python 3.7 from here: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/. And my python procedures now worked.

screenshot from dependency walker

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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No need to build from source, which would require that you install a C compiler, which is non-trivial on Windows.

You never told us if python3.dll was present in the directory or not, so I'll assume it was there. Then the error would indicate that a shared library that python3.dll links with is missing, most likely from Python 3. Installing Python 3 will probably solve the problem.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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