Psycopg2 Python SSL Support is not compiled in

Question

I am trying to connect to my postgres database using psycopg2 with sslmode=\'required\' param; however, I get the following error

psycopg2.OperationalError:          


        

Answer 1

If you're using v2.6.1 or v2.6.2 of psycopg2 (like me), the answer was a simple upgrade to v2.7. Reading the release notes for psycopg2, there was a minor fix for SSL albeit it doesn't look particularly relevant.

My setup was as follows:

• Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
• psycopg2 2.6.2 installed via pip
• PostgreSQL installed via Enterprise DB Installer

Running pip uninstall psycopg2 followed by pip install psycopg2 resolved matters.