I'd like to approach this as 'support database urls in django', rather than 'copy/paste dj-database-url into django'. For postgres (I'm not sure about other backends), a database url can be passed directly to psycopg2. The postgres connection string format actually supports more features than is possible with django's HOST/USER/PORT... style settings. For example, you can pass multiple hosts and psycopg2 will attempt to connect to one of them: https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-10-multi-host-connstr/. Any attempt to parse the url in django will result in a loss of those features.
The only problem I see is that we have to parse the database backend out of the url, and you can't pass a url like 'postgis://....' to psyscopg2. I'd like to be able to do something like: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'DSN': 'postgres://....', 'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', }, } And let psycopg2 handle the DSN. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/38553bb5-59b0-4772-a17a-282f795f1548%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.