Hi,
I recently upgraded to django 4.2.4 and decided to give psycopg3 a try. I’ve been using psycopg2 for years without any problems. But with psycopg3, I get an exception for many of my create/edit form views. The exception thrown is:
NotSupportedError at [snip]/units/new/
server-side cursors not supported in pipeline mode
If I enable DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS in the settings, it seems to work fine. If I use psycopg2 instead, it also works. It’s worth noting that the database uses default values for ATOMIC_REQUESTS and AUTOCOMMIT.
Is this expected? Should I just enable DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS, and if yes, is there any downside? Or should I just stick to psycopg2 (although django docs say it’ll be deprecated, so it’s a concern)?
UPDATE: The error seems to be thrown when rendering a related field in the template, while iterating over the choice queryset. There might be other scenarios, but at the moment, that’s the only one I can see.
It appears that there might be a setting you need to make for server-side cursors?
See Server-side parameters binding
The docs also reference this: Differences from psycopg2 - psycopg 3.2.0.dev1 documentation
Thanks for the feedback. Changing server_side_binding value didn’t have any effect.
As it turns out, I believe the problem is more fundamental. I installed psycopg3 with pip install "psycopg[binary]" on my standard Ubuntu 20.04 server (with libpq5 package installed). And I think the binary version of psycopg3 is not ABI compatible with that system.
With debug enabled in django and looking at the backtrace, the last entry would look like this:
What caught my attention is the invalid/unexpected PipelineStatus value. This could typically happen if the compiled code is retrieving the status from an incorrect address/offset. So I figured the precompiled binary package might be at fault here. I tried both pure-python (pip install psycopg) and local-install (pip install "psycopg[c]"), and they both work fine.
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