Database "postgres" does not exist error when running test command

[Daniel Grace]

Hi,

I get an error when running the test command:

>python manage.py test flow

Creating test database for alias 'default'...

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\landy\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\__init__.py", line 133, in

 ensure_connection

    self.connect()

  File "C:\landy\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\__init__.py", line 122, in

 connect

    self.connection = self.get_new_connection(conn_params)

  File "C:\landy\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\postgresql_psycopg2\base.p

y", line 134, in get_new_connection

    return Database.connect(**conn_params)

  File "C:\landy\lib\site-packages\psycopg2\__init__.py", line 164, in connect

    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async)

psycopg2.OperationalError: FATAL:  database "postgres" does not exist

Here is the database settings:

DATABASES = {

    'default': {

        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',

        'NAME': 'cresta',                      

        'USER': 'postgres',

        'PASSWORD': 'test1234',

        'HOST': '',

        'ATOMIC_REQUESTS': True

    }

}

I don't get any errors when manually testing.  What is going on?

Thanks

[Aliane Abdelouahab]

how about this

http://stackoverflow.com/a/19426770/861487

[Daniel Grace]

On Saturday, 15 November 2014 00:58:32 UTC, Aliane Abdelouahab wrote:

how about this

http://stackoverflow.com/a/19426770/861487

That link, what is that about?

Anyway, I manually created a database called "postgres" and the error went away.

[Thomas G Lockhart]

That link suggested doing exactly what you did!

- Tom