#34410 closed Bug (invalid)
Adding database dynamically breaks in Django 4.1+
Reported by: | Dhruva Patil | Owned by: | Dhruva Patil |
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Component: | Database layer (models, ORM) | Version: | 4.1 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Carlton Gibson, Florian Apolloner | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Adding databases to django.conf.settings.DATABASES was working properly in django < 4.1. Since 4.1, it has started breaking.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 55, in inner response = get_response(request) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 197, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view return view_func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/viewsets.py", line 125, in view return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 509, in dispatch response = self.handle_exception(exc) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 469, in handle_exception self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 480, in raise_uncaught_exception raise exc File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 506, in dispatch response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs) ... File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 605, in aggregate return query.get_aggregation(self.db, kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 544, in get_aggregation result = compiler.execute_sql(SINGLE) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 1393, in execute_sql cursor = self.connection.cursor() File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/asyncio.py", line 26, in inner return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 323, in cursor return self._cursor() File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 299, in _cursor self.ensure_connection() File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/asyncio.py", line 26, in inner return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 282, in ensure_connection self.connect() File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/asyncio.py", line 26, in inner return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 247, in connect self.check_settings() File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 271, in check_settings if self.settings_dict["TIME_ZONE"] is not None and not settings.USE_TZ: KeyError: 'TIME_ZONE'
Change History (7)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 21 months ago
follow-up: 3 comment:2 by , 21 months ago
Replying to Mariusz Felisiak:
Creating a new database connection or modifying an existing one on fly has never been supported.
We've been using Django for our multi tenant app to support new db connections on the fly, along with a middleware and it has worked quite well, with few hiccups due to the "unofficial" nature of the implementation. Django 4.1 broke this for seemingly no good reason.
If the philosophy is to reject making even minor changes to the app to retain functionality that was unofficially available, then that is your prerogative, you can close the ticket.
However, it would be ideal to retain the behaviour of the app for such scenarios that was available in Django before 4.1. As the code changes required for it is very minimal, I would prefer this option. I have raised a PR for the same: https://github.com/django/django/pull/16647
comment:3 by , 21 months ago
Resolution: | → invalid |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
We've been using Django for our multi tenant app to support new db connections on the fly, along with a middleware and it has worked quite well, with few hiccups due to the "unofficial" nature of the implementation. Django 4.1 broke this for seemingly no good reason.
If the philosophy is to reject making even minor changes to the app to retain functionality that was unofficially available, then that is your prerogative, you can close the ticket.
We rejected such tickets in the past, see #33578.
However, it would be ideal to retain the behaviour of the app for such scenarios that was available in Django before 4.1. As the code changes required for it is very minimal, I would prefer this option. I have raised a PR for the same: https://github.com/django/django/pull/16647
Unfortunately, the number of lines changed does not matter, as we cannot guarantee that we will not break it again in the future.
comment:4 by , 21 months ago
Cc: | added |
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follow-up: 6 comment:5 by , 21 months ago
File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 271, in check_settings if self.settings_dict["TIME_ZONE"] is not None and not settings.USE_TZ: KeyError: 'TIME_ZONE'
Did you try making sure {"TIME_ZONE": None}
appears in your setting dict?
comment:6 by , 21 months ago
Replying to Carlton Gibson:
File "/home/appuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 271, in check_settings if self.settings_dict["TIME_ZONE"] is not None and not settings.USE_TZ: KeyError: 'TIME_ZONE'Did you try making sure
{"TIME_ZONE": None}
appears in your settings dict?
Need to add all the default parameters, that works. However, we will now have to maintain that separately. It's not a major change as such, we were just hoping to avoid having ancillary code that was already part of the source code before for this to work.
comment:7 by , 21 months ago
On principle I am not opposed to fixing this (I know I am using Django for things much worse :D). That said only as long as it is clear that we don't see it as supported configuration.
Creating a new database connection or modifying an existing one on fly has never been supported.