id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
6676	Docs for what goes in DATABASE_ENGINE is wrong	HM	nobody	"According to settings.txt,

{{{
In the Django development version, you can use a database backend that doesn’t 
ship with Django by setting DATABASE_ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 
mypackage.backends.whatever). Writing a whole new database backend from
scratch is left as an exercise to the reader; see the other backends for examples.
}}}

However, attempting to do this leads to:

{{{
  ..
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py"", line 32, in <module>
    (settings.DATABASE_ENGINE, "", "".join(map(repr, available_backends)))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'extra.backends.psycopg2_sequencesafe' isn't 
an available database backend. Available options are: 'ado_mssql', 'dummy', 'mysql', 
'mysql_old', 'oracle', 'postgresql', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3'
}}}

as of trunk version 7167. See also ticket #1946"		closed	Documentation	dev		worksforme	settings,database		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0