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asyncpg does not install with python 3.12-dev

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql, python
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with the linked GitHub CI trace and the failing generated file asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c, reproducing installation with Python 3.12-dev. Investigate the reported PyLongObject ob_digit compilation error and verify that asyncpg installs successfully on that Python version without the reported build failure.

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Description

See Github CI trace

  • asyncpg version: latest
  • PostgreSQL version: latest
  • Do you use a PostgreSQL SaaS? If so, which? Can you reproduce
    the issue with a local PostgreSQL install?
    : No / Does not apply
  • Python version: 3.12-dev
  • Platform: Github CI
  • Do you use pgbouncer?: No
  • Did you install asyncpg with pip?: Just trying, it fails.
  • If you built asyncpg locally, which version of Cython did you use?: 312
  • Can the issue be reproduced under both asyncio and
    uvloop?
    : I do not know.

Python 3.12, under development, seems to have changed a structure:

      asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c: In function ‘__Pyx_PyInt_As_int’:
      asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c:40800:53: error: ‘PyLongObject’ {aka ‘struct _longobject’} has no member named ‘ob_digit’
      40800 |             const digit* digits = ((PyLongObject*)x)->ob_digit;
            |                                                     ^~

Also, there are two repeated warnings:

gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -fPIC -I/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0-alpha.5/x64/include/python3.12 -c asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.o -O2 -fsigned-char -Wall -Wsign-compare -Wconversion
      asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c: In function ‘__pyx_pf_7asyncpg_7pgproto_7pgproto_11WriteBuffer_2__dealloc__’:
      asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c:3127:5: warning: ‘ma_version_tag’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
       3127 |     __Pyx_GetModuleGlobalName(__pyx_t_4, __pyx_n_s_BufferError); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_4)) __PYX_ERR(1, 34, __pyx_L1_error)
            |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      In file included from /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0-alpha.5/x64/include/python3.12/dictobject.h:90,
                       from /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0-alpha.5/x64/include/python3.12/Python.h:61,
                       from asyncpg/pgproto/pgproto.c:31:
      /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0-alpha.5/x64/include/python3.12/cpython/dictobject.h:22:34: note: declared here
         22 |     Py_DEPRECATED(3.12) uint64_t ma_version_tag;
            |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.0-alpha.5/x64/include/python3.12/internal/pycore_code.h:434:41: warning: conversion to ‘int’ from ‘unsigned int’ may change the sign of the result [-Wsign-conversion]
        434 |     return adaptive_counter_bits(value, backoff);
            |                                         ^~~~~~~
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