South error when working with multiple databases: django.db.utils.ConnectionDoesNotExist: The connection foo doesn't exist

Question

I have 2 Django projects with following db settings:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'db1', # 'db2' for second db
        ...
    }
}

When trying to sync second db with command

python manage.py syncdb --database=db2

I receive error

django.db.utils.ConnectionDoesNotExist: The connection db2 doesn't exist

When I use some other commands, South uses migrations from first project and fills db2 with wrong tables. How to correctly sync/migrate several projects served by single Django + South instance?

Bogey Jammer · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-26 16:53:11Z

5

The database syncing method does not take the NAME key in the --database option. As specified earlier, default for your db1 only works. So you need to setup an additional database dictionary for your db2.

answered Oct 26, 2013 at 16:53

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