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'}  
}
}