First-run experience w/ psycopg2 and django 1.3.x

[Jeremy Dunck]

There's a known problem w/ latest pg (2.4.2) and we decided not to
backport the fix to 1.3.x because there's a workaround.

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16250

All well and good, but someone coming to Django w/ postgres will have
a bad first-run experience because the docs don't mention this issue.

I think this should be mentioned here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/install/#database-installation
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#std:setting-DATABASE-ENGINE
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/

Where else might it be useful?

[Shai Berger]

On Thursday 19 January 2012, Jeremy Dunck wrote:
> There's a known problem w/ latest pg (2.4.2) and we decided not to
> backport the fix to 1.3.x because there's a workaround.
>
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16250
>
> All well and good, but someone coming to Django w/ postgres will have
> a bad first-run experience because the docs don't mention this issue.
>
> I think this should be mentioned here:
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/install/#database-installation
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#std:setting-DATABASE-EN

> GINE https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial01/

>
> Where else might it be useful?

I think first and foremost (maybe even only)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/databases/

Also, the issue should be revisited since psycopg 2.4.4 was released lately.

Shai,