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 5552 manage.py syncdb will fail silently when `DATABASE_NAME' is empty with sqlite3 nicolas.couture@… nobody "When leaving 'DATABASE_NAME' empty in our default settings.py, running `python manage.py syncdb' will fail silently. Leaving the users with an impression of successful creation of databases. example: {{{ [self@web19 myproject]$ python manage.py syncdb Creating table auth_message Creating table auth_group Creating table auth_user Creating table auth_permission Creating table django_content_type Creating table django_session Creating table django_site Creating table polls_poll Creating table polls_choice }}} Could someone confirm this behavior is also present in versions greater than 0.96?" closed Database layer (models, ORM) dev fixed syncdb DATABASE_NAME philippe@… floguy@… Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0