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 (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