[Django]-Django: Detect database backend

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OK, so there’s two ways of doing it, as @Ricola3D said there’s the option of checking settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE']:

>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE']
'django.db.backends.sqlite3' or 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2'

But there’s also an (undocumented) vendor property on a connection:

>>> from django.db import connection
>>> connection.vendor
'postgresql' or 'sqlite'

Either way works. I personally prefer connection.vendor as it looks prettier 🙂

👤jaap3

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