Re: Is improving Django's communication with Oracle databases on the roadmap?

2015-05-14 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I can't comment on the specifics of this issue, but I would like to mention that there is no roadmap for Django development in general. Oracle expertise is an area we struggle with compared to other backends, and all outside enthusiasm for improving the Oracle backend is gratefully received! On 15

Re: Is improving Django's communication with Oracle databases on the roadmap?

2015-05-14 Thread Josh Smeaton
Hi Daniel, Can you provide links to the patches and discussion you're referring to? It'll be easier to provide some feedback if we have the detail in front of us. I'm all for improving performance for the Oracle backend - as long as backwards compatibility or correctness doesn't suffer. If eit

Is improving Django's communication with Oracle databases on the roadmap?

2015-05-14 Thread Daniel Porter
Hi list, I recently started working in the research wing of Moffitt Cancer Center, and our shop uses django for +10 in-house applications, running almost exclusively against oracle applications. Django has enabled building some great applications, but the performance is kind of terrible when ru

Re: Can Django assume connect privileges to the 'postgres' database?

2015-05-14 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Claude, On 05/14/2015 12:42 PM, Claude Paroz wrote: > Le jeudi 14 mai 2015 18:22:58 UTC+2, Carl Meyer a écrit : > > (...) > > I think the answer here is appropriate configurability. I see at least > two ways to make that happen: > > 1) add a config OPTION to set what database

Re: Can Django assume connect privileges to the 'postgres' database?

2015-05-14 Thread Claude Paroz
Le jeudi 14 mai 2015 18:22:58 UTC+2, Carl Meyer a écrit : > > (...) > > I think the answer here is appropriate configurability. I see at least > two ways to make that happen: > > 1) add a config OPTION to set what database is used when establishing a > "no-database" connection? The option would

Re: Can Django assume connect privileges to the 'postgres' database?

2015-05-14 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Tim, On 05/13/2015 09:29 PM, Tim Graham wrote: > Django 1.8 requires a connection to the 'postgres' database in order to > resolve ticket #16969 [1]. We've had several reports of cases where > connecting to the 'postgres' database isn't permitted (e.g. Heroku and > other shared hosting provider