Sometimes, we want to set up a PostgreSQL database in Python Django.
In this article, we’ll look at how to set up a PostgreSQL database in Python Django.
How to set up a PostgreSQL database in Python Django?
To set up a PostgreSQL database in Python Django, we add the psycopg2 package and add some settings into settings.py.
We run
pip install psycopg2
to install psycopg2.
Then in settings.py, we write
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'db_name',
'USER': 'db_user',
'PASSWORD': 'db_user_password',
'HOST': '',
'PORT': 'db_port_number',
}
}
to set the DATABASE variable to a dict with the settings.
USER and PASSWORD ahs the user and password.
HOST and PORT has the URL and port of the database server.
Conclusion
To set up a PostgreSQL database in Python Django, we add the psycopg2 package and add some settings into settings.py.
