Re: Django and Postgres

On 04/06/2015 08:58 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> Django 1.8 was just released so I was reading the Release Notes which
> led me to this:
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/postgres/
> "
> Note
>
> Django is, and will continue to be, a database-agnostic web framework.
> We would encourage those writing reusable applications for the Django
> community to write database-agnostic code where practical. However, we
> recognize that real world projects written using Django need not be
> database-agnostic. In fact, once a project reaches a given size changing
> the underlying data store is already a significant challenge and is
> likely to require changing the code base in some ways to handle
> differences between the data stores.
>
> Django provides support for a number of data types which will only work
> with PostgreSQL. There is no fundamental reason why (for example) a
> contrib.mysql module does not exist, except that PostgreSQL has the
> richest feature set of the supported databases so its users have the
> most to gain.
> "

Yeah, we <3 Django.


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Josh Berkus
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