Include configurations for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index e27e6b7..8a45b1a 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -24,8 +24,16 @@ the libraries required for working on the Debug Toolbar::
 
 You can run now run the example application::
 
+    $ DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=example.settings django-admin.py syncdb
+    $ DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=example.settings django-admin.py runserver
+
+For convenience, there's an alias for the second command::
+
     $ make example
 
+Look at ``example/settings.py`` for running the example with another database
+than SQLite.
+
 Tests
 -----
 
diff --git a/example/settings.py b/example/settings.py
index 0934c0e..a4e9e67 100644
--- a/example/settings.py
+++ b/example/settings.py
@@ -49,6 +49,30 @@ DATABASES = {
     }
 }
 
+# To use another database, set the DJANGO_DATABASE_ENGINE environment variable.
+if os.environ.get('DJANGO_DATABASE_ENGINE', '').lower() == 'postgresql':
+    # % su postgres
+    # % createuser debug_toolbar
+    # % createdb debug_toolbar -O debug_toolbar
+    DATABASES = {
+        'default': {
+            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
+            'NAME': 'debug_toolbar',
+            'USER': 'debug_toolbar',
+        }
+    }
+if os.environ.get('DJANGO_DATABASE_ENGINE', '').lower() == 'mysql':
+    # % mysql
+    # mysql> CREATE DATABASE debug_toolbar;
+    # mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON debug_toolbar.* TO 'debug_toolbar'@'localhost';
+    DATABASES = {
+        'default': {
+            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
+            'NAME': 'debug_toolbar',
+            'USER': 'debug_toolbar',
+        }
+    }
+
 
 # django-debug-toolbar