Postgresql Binaries

Uses releases from theseus-rs/postgresql-binaries and publishes them to pypy, so that you can do:

pip install postgresql-binaries==18.3.0

Then to use, eg:

import postgresql_binaries
import subprocess

cmd = [
    str(postgresql_binaries.bin() / "initdb"),
    *("-D", directory),
    *("-U", "postgres"),
    *("--auth-host", "trust"),
]
subprocess.check_call(cmd)

Packages are around 10MB. On the first call to bin(), the archive baked into the wheel is unpacked in place.

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This library is intentionally really dumb, and intended to be built upon. There are mixed opinions on whether (ab)using PyPI to host binary files is a good idea. There are similar packages around, but they don't handle versioning well and include too much other junk.