How To Install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. postgresql-plpython.x86_64 is The Python2 procedural language for PostgreSQL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `postgresql-plpython.x86_64`

The postgresql-plpython package contains the PL/Python procedural language, which is an extension to the PostgreSQL database server. Install this if you want to write database functions in Python 2.

We can use yum to install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install postgresql-plpython.x86_64.

Install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install postgresql-plpython.x86_64

How To Uninstall postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the postgresql-plpython.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove postgresql-plpython.x86_64

postgresql-plpython.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/pgsql/plpython2.so
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.2.mo
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpython2u--1.0.sql
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpython2u--unpackaged--1.0.sql
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpython2u.control
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpythonu--1.0.sql
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpythonu--unpackaged--1.0.sql
/usr/share/pgsql/extension/plpythonu.control

References

postgresql-plpython.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-plpython.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.