PL/Python

A procedural language enabling PostgreSQL functions to be written in Python

PL/Python is a procedural language enabling PostgreSQL functions to be written in Python.

PL/Python was added in PostgreSQL 7.2. It is one of the four procedural languages provided as part of the core distribution (the others being PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl and PL/Tcl).

Change history

Work-in-progress

PostgreSQL 10
- support for multi-dimensional arrays in function arguments added (commit 94aceed3)
PostgreSQL 9.4
- PostgreSQL numeric values now converted to Python decimal (commit 7919398b)
PostgreSQL 9.3
- result object string handler added (commit 330ed4ac)
- OID values now converted to a proper Python numeric type (commit db0af74a)
- SPIErrors raised directly and treated in the same as an SPIError generated internally (commit 316186f2)
- support for building against custom Python installations on OS X (commit fc874507)
PostgreSQL 9.1
- support for explicit subtransactions added (commit 22690719)
- support for table functions added (commit bc411f25)
- validator function added (commit 15f55cc3)
- following functions added (commit 1c51c7d5):
  - plpy.quote_ident
  - plpy.quote_literal
  - plpy.quote_nullable
PostgreSQL 9.0
- support for DO blocks added (commit adb77640)
- support for Python 3 added (commit dd4cd55c)
PostgreSQL 7.3
- various API improvements
PostgreSQL 7.2
- added (initial commit 0bef7ba5)

References

PostgreSQL documentation: PL/Python - Python Procedural Language

Useful links

Getting Started with Postgres Functions in PL/Python - August 2020 blog article from Crunchy Data
Postgres Data Types in PL/Python - September 2020 blog article from Crunchy Data

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