Installing psycopg2 into virtualenv when PostgreSQL is not installed on development system

Question

Is it possible to install psycopg2 into a virtualenv when PostgreSQL isn\'t installed on my development system—MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6?

When I run

Answer 1

psycopg depends on pg_config command, and if you don't have it, you can't install psycopg.

If system installation is a problem to you, why don't you try compiling PostgreSQL and including generated bin files in your $PATH? Like:

export PATH=/path/to/compiled/postgresql/bin:"$PATH"
pip install psycopg2