valhuber / postgres_bpchar

Test Description

I have a postgres (PostgreSQL) 13.4 (Debian 13.4-1.pgdg100+1) database, running on Mac, under docker:

docker run -d --name postgresql-container --net dev-network -p 5432:5432 -e PGDATA=/pgdata -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=p apilogicserver/postgres:version1.0.2

The following table uses bpchar for a datatype:

When running the reflect code under SQLAlchemy==1.4.29, I get the following console log:

/Users/val/dev/examples/postgres_bpchar/run.py:7: SAWarning: Did not recognize type 'bpchar' of column 'customer_id'

The metadata sees this as nulltype:

Questions

My questions are:

1. Is bpchar supported in the postgres dialect?
   • I thought that the dialect was inferred from the uri postgresql.
   • I no such module with postgres+psycopg2
2. If not, how can I recover the original type?

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