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Postgres setup for Django

Postgres setup for Django

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Postgres setup for Django

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- [Instructor] Let's have a little discussion about databases. The great thing about Django is it's made to work with lots of different databases. In fact, you may have noticed, if we go ahead and open up our portfolio project there's this mysterious little file here called 'db.sqlite3' and that in fact, Django comes with a database ready to rock and roll. That's this 'sqlite3' and if we go ahead and move over to Admin here, you can actually see if we go to our settings which is in the portfolio folder and we scroll down here. Let's go down to our 'DATABASES'. You can see there's a little bit of code here to say, "We want to have a database set up with the following name." It should be 'sqlite3', all this stuff. That's the default in every Django project but there's lots of different databases that Django can work with. One of the most popular ones is 'PostgreSQL' so that's the one that I want to teach you because it's the most relevant. And so, what we're going to do is go through…

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