Our website uses a PHP front-end and a PostgreSQL database. We don't have a back-end at the moment except phpPgAdmin. The database admin has to type data into phpPgAmin manually, which is error-prone and tedious. We want to use Django to build a back-end.
The database has a few dozen of tables already there. Is it possible to import the database schema into Django and create models automatically?
Yes it is possible, using the inspectdb command:
python manage.py inspectdb
or
python manage.py inspectdb > models.py
to get them in into the file
This will look at the database configured in your settings.py and outputs model classes to standard output.
As Ignacio pointed out, there is a guide for your situation in the documentation.
If each table has an autoincrement integer PK then you can use the legacy database instructions.
