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PGAdapter - SQLAlchemy 1.4 Connection Options

It is recommended to use SQLAlchemy 2.x with psycopg 3.x when working with PGAdapter. See SQLAlchemy 2.x Connection Options for more information on how to use SQLAlchemy 2.x.

Limitations

PGAdapter has experimental support for SQLAlchemy 1.4 with Cloud Spanner PostgreSQL databases. It has been tested with SQLAlchemy 1.4.45 and psycopg2 2.9.3. Developing new applications using SQLAlchemy is possible as long as the listed limitations are taken into account. Porting an existing application from PostgreSQL to Cloud Spanner is likely to require code changes.

It is recommended to use SQLAlchemy 2.x in combination with psycopg 3.x instead of SQLAlchemy 1.4 with psycopg2. Psycopg2 never uses server-side query parameters. This will increase the latency of all queries that are executed by SQLAlchemy. See SQLAlchemy 2.x Connection Options for more information on how to use SQLAlchemy 2.x.

See Limitations in the sqlalchemy-sample directory for a full list of limitations.

Usage

First start PGAdapter:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/credentials.json
docker pull gcr.io/cloud-spanner-pg-adapter/pgadapter
docker run \
  -d -p 5432:5432 \
  -v ${GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS}:${GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS}:ro \
  -e GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS \
  gcr.io/cloud-spanner-pg-adapter/pgadapter \
  -p my-project -i my-instance \
  -x

Then connect to PGAdapter and use SQLAlchemy like this:

conn_string = "postgresql+psycopg2://user:password@localhost:5432/my-database"
engine = create_engine(conn_string)
with Session(engine) as session:
  user1 = User(
    name="user1",
    fullname="Full name of User 1",
    addresses=[Address(email_address="[email protected]")]
  )
  session.add(user1)
  session.commit()

Limitations

SQLAlchemy 1.x uses psycopg2 for connecting to PostgreSQL. psycopg2 does not use parameterized queries. This affects query execution negatively on Cloud Spanner. It is therefore recommended to use SQLAlchemy 2.x instead of SQLAlchemy 1.x with Cloud Spanner and PGAdapter.

Full Sample and Limitations

This directory contains a full sample of how to work with SQLAlchemy with Cloud Spanner and PGAdapter. The sample readme file also lists the current limitations when working with SQLAlchemy.