from psycopg2 import ProgrammingError from psycopg2.extras import register_hstore from django.utils import six def register_hstore_handler(connection, **kwargs): if connection.vendor != 'postgresql': return try: if six.PY2: register_hstore(connection.connection, globally=True, unicode=True) else: register_hstore(connection.connection, globally=True) except ProgrammingError: # Hstore is not available on the database. # # If someone tries to create an hstore field it will error there. # This is necessary as someone may be using PSQL without extensions # installed but be using other features of contrib.postgres. # # This is also needed in order to create the connection in order to # install the hstore extension. pass