Uninstall postgresql $ brew uninstall postgresql brew uninstall postgresql@10 but because I have postgis installed (a dependecny) I have to run the command $ brew uninstall –ignore-dependencies postgresql. Brew install postgresql@9.6 brew services start postgresql@9.6 brew link postgresql@9.6 –force. Brew services start. $ brew services start postgresql At this point, you should be all set to run the Rails commands to create and use the database in your app.

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Introduction

Django is a fast, high level developmental framework that allows for developing a web application in Python with a lot less hassle than some other frameworks. While Django automatically stores data in a SQLite database, this Django tutorial for postgresql will explain how to store data in Python with the Django framework using the PostgreSQL database cluster.

Prerequisites

• It must be confirmed whether the PostgreSQL database is installed on the local machine, as it will require the credentials that will be set to the Django application. Execute the sudo systemctl status postgresql command in a Systemd distro of Linux terminal to confirm the system is running, or just use the pg_ctl status command.

• For MacOS, start the Homebrew PostgreSQL service with the brew services start postgresql command and then execute the brew info postgres command.

• Python must be installed and working properly. Python 3 is recommended as Python 2.7 is being deprecated and losing support.

Enter the psql console

Execute the following command to enter the interactive PostgreSQL terminal that corresponds to the access of the PostgreSQL administrative user:

Now enter the sudo password or the root authentication for the device and press the -kbd-ENTER-/kbd- key.

When inside the PostgreSQL shell session, execute the following command to enter the console:

Create database and user

After entering the psql command-line console, a database and user must be created that can be set for the Django application. Execute the following command to create the database:

Now execute the following command to create a user login and password that will grant privileges to the newly created database:

Next, modify the parameters for the connection to the Django framework. This is needed to set up the operations for the value queries when a connection is established.

Execute the following ALTER ROLE SQL statement to modify the parameters:

NOTE: This operation will set the encoding to UTF-8, the default expected in Django framework.

Execute the following command to the default transaction isolation:

NOTE: This will set the default transaction isolation each time access is granted to make a query that avoids the transactions that are not committed.

Execute the following command to set the timezone:

NOTE: Django typically uses the UTC, by default, for the timezone.

Finally, execute the following command to grant the user access privileges to the database:

The results should resemble the following image:

Install Django in Virtual Environment

A virtual environment is used to manage the dependencies of different projects by creating a separation of Python isolation to the virtual environments.

Using the terminal, execute the following command to create a directory in the Django framework to store the project:

Now execute the following command to create a virtual environment that will store the Django project in Python.

NOTE: The venv command is now a built-in feature of Python since version 3.6. If using a Python version older than 3.6, the virtual environment package for Python must be installed and activated before installing the Django framework.

Execute the following command to activate the virtual environment:

With the venv activated, install the Django framework using the following pip3 command:

Now execute the following command to install the psycopg2 to allow configuring of PostgreSQL:

Start the Django project

Using the below command will allow for creating a folder to hold the codes within the project directory. Note that the manage.py is created after putting a dot at the end of the command to set the project correctly.

Execute the following command to start the Django project:

With the project now created, execute the following command to configure the project to set the PostgreSQL database credentials:

Look for the default configured database as SQLite and set it for the database credentials in PostgreSQL as follows:

Change the ALLOWED_HOSTS Python list of allowable domains, as shown below, and add the domain’s IP address or localhost for local development:

The results should resemble the following:

Test the Django application

With the configuration finished, the structures of data must be migrated to the database to test the application for the Django server.

Execute the following command to access the project directory:

Now add the following code to create a database structure:

Finally, execute the following code to create an administrative account for the Django application:

NOTE: A current admin account can be used to set up a superuser account for the Django application.

Now execute the following command to test the Django application and confirm it is working properly:

When the system displays a message that the application is working, add /admin in the URL and enter the previously set up username and password.

Conclusion

This Django tutorial for postgresql explained how to store data in Python with the Django framework using PostgreSQL. The tutorial explained how to create a database and user, grant the user access to the database, install Django in a virtual environment and activate the virtual environment. The Django tutorial for postgresql also explained how to start the Django project, create an administrative account and finally test the Django application. Remember that the virtual environment package for Python must be installed and activated separately, before installing the Django framework, if using a version of Python prior to 3.6.

Before anyone can access the database, you must start the database server. The database server program is called postgres. The postgres program must know where to find the data it is supposed to use. This is done with the -D option. Thus, the simplest way to start the server is:

which will leave the server running in the foreground. This must be done while logged into the PostgreSQL user account. Without -D, the server will try to use the data directory named by the environment variable PGDATA. If that variable is not provided either, it will fail.

Normally it is better to start postgres in the background. For this, use the usual Unix shell syntax:

It is important to store the server's stdout and stderr output somewhere, as shown above. It will help for auditing purposes and to diagnose problems. (See Section 23.3 for a more thorough discussion of log file handling.)

The postgres program also takes a number of other command-line options. For more information, see the postgres reference page and Chapter 18 below.

This shell syntax can get tedious quickly. Therefore the wrapper program pg_ctl is provided to simplify some tasks. For example:

will start the server in the background and put the output into the named log file. The -D option has the same meaning here as for postgres. pg_ctl is also capable of stopping the server.

Normally, you will want to start the database server when the computer boots. Autostart scripts are operating-system-specific. There are a few distributed with PostgreSQL in the contrib/start-scripts directory. Installing one will require root privileges.

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Different systems have different conventions for starting up daemons at boot time. Many systems have a file /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Others use init.d or rc.d directories. Whatever you do, the server must be run by the PostgreSQL user account and not by root or any other user. Therefore you probably should form your commands using su postgres -c '...'. For example:

Here are a few more operating-system-specific suggestions. (In each case be sure to use the proper installation directory and user name where we show generic values.)

• For FreeBSD, look at the file contrib/start-scripts/freebsd in the PostgreSQL source distribution.

• On OpenBSD, add the following lines to the file /etc/rc.local:

• On Linux systems either add

  to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or look at the file contrib/start-scripts/linux in the PostgreSQL source distribution.

• On NetBSD, use either the FreeBSD or Linux start scripts, depending on preference.

• On Solaris, create a file called /etc/init.d/postgresql that contains the following line:

  Then, create a symbolic link to it in /etc/rc3.d as S99postgresql.

While the server is running, its PID is stored in the file postmaster.pid in the data directory. This is used to prevent multiple server instances from running in the same data directory and can also be used for shutting down the server.

17.3.1. Server Start-up Failures

There are several common reasons the server might fail to start. Check the server's log file, or start it by hand (without redirecting standard output or standard error) and see what error messages appear. Below we explain some of the most common error messages in more detail.

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This usually means just what it suggests: you tried to start another server on the same port where one is already running. However, if the kernel error message is not Address already in use or some variant of that, there might be a different problem. For example, trying to start a server on a reserved port number might draw something like:

A message like:

probably means your kernel's limit on the size of shared memory is smaller than the work area PostgreSQL is trying to create (4011376640 bytes in this example). Or it could mean that you do not have System-V-style shared memory support configured into your kernel at all. As a temporary workaround, you can try starting the server with a smaller-than-normal number of buffers (shared_buffers). You will eventually want to reconfigure your kernel to increase the allowed shared memory size. You might also see this message when trying to start multiple servers on the same machine, if their total space requested exceeds the kernel limit.

An error like:

does not mean you've run out of disk space. It means your kernel's limit on the number of System V semaphores is smaller than the number PostgreSQL wants to create. As above, you might be able to work around the problem by starting the server with a reduced number of allowed connections (max_connections), but you'll eventually want to increase the kernel limit.

If you get an 'illegal system call' error, it is likely that shared memory or semaphores are not supported in your kernel at all. In that case your only option is to reconfigure the kernel to enable these features.

Details about configuring System VIPC facilities are given in Section 17.4.1.

17.3.2. Client Connection Problems

Although the error conditions possible on the client side are quite varied and application-dependent, a few of them might be directly related to how the server was started. Conditions other than those shown below should be documented with the respective client application.

This is the generic 'I couldn't find a server to talk to' failure. It looks like the above when TCP/IP communication is attempted. A common mistake is to forget to configure the server to allow TCP/IP connections.

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Alternatively, you'll get this when attempting Unix-domain socket communication to a local server:

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The last line is useful in verifying that the client is trying to connect to the right place. If there is in fact no server running there, the kernel error message will typically be either Connection refused or No such file or directory, as illustrated. (It is important to realize that Connection refused in this context does not mean that the server got your connection request and rejected it. That case will produce a different message, as shown in Section 19.4.) Other error messages such as Connection timed out might indicate more fundamental problems, like lack of network connectivity.