Firebird SQL backend for django
This version of django-firebird is working with fbd [1] .Therefore it will work only with firebird 2.x and later. Also, the current master version of this repository is being developed under django 1.5. And we consider the driver almost stable.
Why the change? fbd is the next official stable python-firebird driver, also it has support for python 3.
If you want to know more about the diferrences between fdb and kinterbasdb you can look at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.python/185/focus=187
If you still use kinterbasdb, the original google code repository has an updated django-firebird 1.4 version.
http://code.google.com/p/django-firebird/
[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/
Instructions for Ubuntu/Debian I assume you have installed django from source with python setup.py install
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
sudo git clone git://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird.git
sudo ln -s django-firebird/firebird firebird
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/backends
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django-firebird/firebird
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE' : 'django.db.backends.firebird',
'NAME' : '/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/rdbgraph.fdb', # Path to database or db alias
'USER' : 'SYSDBA', # Your db user
'PASSWORD' : '*****', # db user password
'HOST' : '127.0.0.1', # Your host machine
'PORT' : '3050', # If is empty, use default 3050
#'OPTIONS' : {'charset':'ISO8859_1'}
}
}