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.
"
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
