And I wish I could upvote your solution to heaven! Thanks for sharing that, why is it not documented anywhere? Sounds like a killing feature..
Cheers! mccc On Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:00:12 AM UTC+2, Richard Esplin wrote: > > Thanks for sharing what you did. I wish PostgreSQL was an option for me on > this project. > > Oracle's answer was pretty generic, but they are right that Django 1.7 is > still in development. It is good to know that they are planning to support > it > when it is released. I am glad I don't have to roll-out 1.6 and then > manage an > upgrade a few months after our launch. > > PyMySQL appears to work fine, but I haven't benchmarked it yet. Knowing > that I > can drop in the Oracle connector if there is a problem makes me confident > to > move forward. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > On Friday, May 09, 2014 14:49:11 Giovanni wrote: > > I switched to PostgreSQL when MySQL wasn't working. PostgreSQL worked > > without a hitch and the migrations work wonderfully. But since my target > > production environment only runs MySQL I will have to make the switch > back > > at some point. > > > > Thanks for submitting the bug to MySQL. I see they posted a somewhat > > generic answer. > > > > On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:52:07 AM UTC-4, Richard Esplin wrote: > > > In order to move forward with this project, I switched to PyMySQL: > > > > > > https://github.com/PyMySQL > > > > > > It appears to work great. In order to use the default Django backend > for > > > MySQL, I put this in my settings.py: > > > > <snip> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0c46dae7-98a1-4758-8869-a1faccad04e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

