Question

How can I tell manage.py to operate in a specific PostgreSQL schema?

My database is separated into multiple schema, one per client/deployment, to keep data separate.

However, it seems that Django does not really support schemas very well. How can I generate my models, etc for a specific schema with manage.py?

Answer 1

Here’s what worked in the end:

I wrote a new manage.py command that was a wrapper for the commands I wanted to be schema-aware (syncdb, migrate, changepassword), and select the schema manually by:

from django.db import connection
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute('SET search_path TO ' + my_little_schema)