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Does Django 1.9.5 support PostgreSQL 11?

Time:06-11

The end-of-life for Postgres 10 on Heroku is closer and closer, but I still have a legacy project on Django 1.9 using it there. Is it possible to migrate to Postgres 11 without troubles?

CodePudding user response:

Going by the documentation:

Django supports PostgreSQL 9.0 and higher. It requires the use of psycopg2 2.4.5 or higher (or 2.5 if you want to use django.contrib.postgres).

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/databases/#postgresql-notes

The current psycopg2 implementation supports:

  • Python versions from 3.6 to 3.10
  • PostgreSQL server versions from 7.4 to 14
  • PostgreSQL client library version from 9.1

https://www.psycopg.org/docs/install.html#prerequisites

The earliest mentions of Postgres 11 in psycopg2 appear around 2.7.x, with 2.8 explicitly mentioning:

  • Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3.

  • Wheel package compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.2r and PostgreSQL 11.2 libpq.

https://www.psycopg.org/docs/news.html#what-s-new-in-psycopg-2-8

So, the problem will be somewhere around psycopg, if anything. If you can run your Django project on Python 3.4 with psycopg 2.8 , there should be no reason why it doesn't work. Older versions of psycopg2 may well work with Postgres 11 just fine as well. You should simply test that on a local environment (e.g. Docker).

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