import json import pg8000 as dbapi from pprint import pprint def getconnection(database,host,port,user,password): conn= None try: conn=dbapi.connect(database=database,host=host, port=port,\ user=user,password=password,ssl=True) except Exception as err: print(err) return conn def runquery(conn,query): """ Just run a query given a connection """ curr=conn.cursor() curr.execute(query) for row in curr.fetchall(): pprint(row) return None if __name__ =='__main__': config={ "database": "databasename", "host": "myhost.redshift.amazonaws.com", "port": 8192, "user": 'username', "password": 'password' } conn = getconnection(config['database'],config['host'],\ config['port'],config['user'],config['password']) runquery(conn,\ ''' select datname, nspname, relname from pg_class, pg_namespace, pg_database where pg_namespace.oid = relnamespace and datname ='dwrsg010' and nspname not in ('information_schema','pg_catalog','pg_toast') group by datname, nspname, relname order by datname, nspname, relname ; ''' )