On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Emily Rodgers <
emily.kate.rodg...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>
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> On Jul 1, 3:22 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Emily Rodgers <
> >
> >
> >
> > emily.kate.rodg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 25, 6:45 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Tim Chase
> > > > <django.us...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:
> > > > > > Right now, Django doesn't seem to support the multiple
> > > > > > databases on the same server or different servers.  Will that
> > > > > > feature be available out of the box for future releases?
> >
> > > > > You may want to eavesdrop on the Django Developers group (as
> > > > > opposed to this Django Users group) where Alex Gaynor has been
> > > > > posting updates on his GSoC project to add multi-DB support to
> > > > > Django[1].  There are several aspects to multi-DB support[2] but
> > > > > I believe he's addressing some of the more common use-cases.  You
> > > > > can even follow along if you like to live dangerously as I
> > > > > believe he's got a public repository for his code on GitHub.
> >
> > > > > -tim
> >
> > > > > [1]
> >
> > > > >
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/search?group=django-.
> > > ..
> >
> > > > > [2]
> >
> > > > >
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/6630.
> > > ..
> > > > > for my posted concerns
> >
> > > > I have both a public code repository on github at
> > > github.com/alex/django/ as
> > > > well as a branch in Django's SVN at branches/soc2009/multidb.  The
> best
> > > > place to find out about the work is the django-developers list, where
> I
> > > have
> > > > sent any number of emails discussing both the overall design, as well
> as
> > > the
> > > > status.
> >
> > > > Alex
> >
> > > > --
> > > > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
> right
> > > to
> > > > say it." --Voltaire
> > > > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Alex - do you know roughly when this is likely to be incorporated into
> > > django? I am working on a project that is going to need to connect to
> > > multiple databases (I am just planning / designing at the moment), and
> > > I want to know whether I should start investigating how to do this
> > > using django 1.0.2 or if that would be a waste of my time.
> >
> > > If it is going to be a while, where would you suggest I start looking
> > > if I need to understand how to do it with django 1.0.2?
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Em
> >
> > It will, at a minimum not occur until the end of the summer.  Beyond that
> I
> > can't make any really useful guesses, other than to say that the
> aggregation
> > GSOC project from last summer
> > ultimately made it's way into django trunk in January, about 3-4 months
> > after the official end of GSOC.  That may or may not ultimately be
> > representative of how long it will take multi-db to make it's way back
> into
> > Django.  A lot of it probably depends on how the 1.2/1.3 releases are
> > scheduled.  For example is 1.2 ends up being a smaller release that's put
> > out in Novemberish I wouldn't expect multi-db to be considered for trunk
> > until 1.3.  Like I said all of that's rather speculative :)
> >
> > Alex
> > --
> > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
> to
> > say it." --Voltaire
> > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero
>
> Thanks Alex. I don't think I can wait that long so it looks like I am
> going to have to get my hands dirty!
>
> Is this [1] a sensible starting point?
>
> [1]
> http://www.mechanicalgirl.com/view/multiple-database-connection-a-simple-use-case/
>
> >
>
That blog post is a good source of information, as is:
http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/easy-multi-database-support-django/(which
unfortunately appears to be down right now).

Alex

-- 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it." --Voltaire
"The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero

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