sqlalchemy-pgspider
PGSpider Dialect for SQLAlchemy
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No. The package is abandoned (last release June 2023, no commits since) with zero community engagement. While the MIT license is permissive and install friction is low, the lack of maintenance means no fixes for compatibility issues with newer SQLAlchemy, psycopg2, or Python versions. Install only if you are locked into an old environment and PGSpider is a hard requirement; otherwise, seek an actively maintained alternative or contact the PGSpider project directly.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires SQLAlchemy 1.4.27 or higher, psycopg2 (or psycopg2-binary) 2.9 or higher, and Python 3.7 or higher.
- PGSpider instance must be running and accessible.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, requiring only license and copyright notice retention.
last release 2023-06-06 (1165 days) · last repo commit 2023-06-06
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 211,369 downloads/mo, #9,480 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install sqlalchemy-pgspider
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
engine = create_engine("pgspider+psycopg2://user:password@localhost:4813/dbname")
with engine.connect() as conn:
result = conn.execute(text("SELECT * FROM table"))
for row in result:
print(row)- Whether the package works with SQLAlchemy versions beyond 1.4.28 (documentation notes only 1.4.28 was tested)
- Current compatibility with modern psycopg2 versions and Python 3.10+ in practice
- Whether PGSpider itself is actively maintained and suitable for production use
What it is and what it does
sqlalchemy-pgspider is a SQLAlchemy dialect that bridges SQLAlchemy to PGSpider, a distributed PostgreSQL system. It inherits from SQLAlchemy's PostgreSQL dialect and overrides version-checking logic so that SQLAlchemy recognizes and connects to PGSpider instead of rejecting it as an unsupported database. The dialect retains full PostgreSQL functionality while working exclusively with the psycopg2 DBAPI driver.
You use it by specifying a pgspider:// or pgspider+psycopg2:// connection URL in SQLAlchemy's create_engine(), then interact with PGSpider through the standard SQLAlchemy Core and ORM interfaces. It is a thin adapter layer—all actual PostgreSQL features available in SQLAlchemy 1.4.28 remain available.
Use it for
- Connect to a PGSpider distributed database cluster using SQLAlchemy ORM for application development
- Execute raw SQL queries against PGSpider through SQLAlchemy's text() interface
- Migrate an existing PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy application to use PGSpider as the backend
- Build multi-node database applications that need transparent sharding via PGSpider
Worth the install?
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No.
The package is abandoned (last release June 2023, no commits since) with zero community engagement. While the MIT license is permissive and install friction is low, the lack of maintenance means no fixes for compatibility issues with newer SQLAlchemy, psycopg2, or Python versions. Install only if you are locked into an old environment and PGSpider is a hard requirement; otherwise, seek an actively maintained alternative or contact the PGSpider project directly.
Install
sqlalchemy-pgspider on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. However, the package is abandoned—last release was 2023-06-06 with no commits since, and it has zero repository stars. Maintenance has ceased.
Requires SQLAlchemy 1.4.27 or higher, psycopg2 (or psycopg2-binary) 2.9 or higher, and Python 3.7 or higher. PGSpider instance must be running and accessible.
License in practice
MIT license permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, requiring only license and copyright notice retention.
Quickstart
pip install sqlalchemy-pgspider
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
engine = create_engine("pgspider+psycopg2://user:password@localhost:4813/dbname")
with engine.connect() as conn:
result = conn.execute(text("SELECT * FROM table"))
for row in result:
print(row)Verify before relying
- Whether the package works with SQLAlchemy versions beyond 1.4.28 (documentation notes only 1.4.28 was tested)
- Current compatibility with modern psycopg2 versions and Python 3.10+ in practice
- Whether PGSpider itself is actively maintained and suitable for production use
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.7,<4.0 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Abandoned 1,165 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 211,369 / month, #9,480 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | License :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
Evidence: sqlalchemy_pgspider-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
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