The cover is from the official
psycopg documentation.Common Issues When Installing psycopg2 on MacOS#
brew install libpq --build-from-source
brew install openssl
Add the following environment variables to your dotfiles or ~/.zshrc (depending on the shell you are using):
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib/pkgconfig"
Then, you should be able to install psycopg2:
pip install psycopg2