There is no South database module 'south.db.postgresql_psycopg2' for your database

Question

i new to django and I'm getting this error from south but i don't know what i'm missing. I search for answers but i can't found anything.

There is no South database module 'south.db.postgresql_psycopg2' for your database. Please either choose a supported database, check for SOUTH_DATABASE_ADAPTER[S] settings, or remove South from INSTALLED_APPS.

This is my base_settings:

from unipath import Path

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).ancestor(3)


SECRET_KEY = 'pp@iz7%bc7%+*11%usf7o@_e&)r2o&^3%zjse)n=6b&w^hem96'

DJANGO_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

)

THIRD_PARTY_APPS = (
    'south',

)

LOCAL_APPS = (


)


INSTALLED_APPS = DJANGO_APPS + THIRD_PARTY_APPS + LOCAL_APPS


MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'misite.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'misite.wsgi.application'

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

local_settings:

from .base import *

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True



ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

DEBUG = True

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'webmaster@example.com'





# ----------------------------
    # POSTGRESQL

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'misite',
        'USER:': 'fernandoperez',
        'PASSWORD': 'admin',
        'HOST':'localhost',
        'PORT':'5432',
    }
}

SOUTH_DATABASE_ADAPTERS = {
     'default': "south.db.postgresql_psycopg2"
 }

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

Can someone help me?? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

This happened to me when I upgraded various modules using pip and one of the dependencies automatically upgraded Django to the current version (1.8). You might just check what is your current Django version (pip freeze) and if it's 1.8 just downgrade to 1.6 line (pip install -U "Django<1.7").