Django+Postgres: “current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block”

Question

I\'ve started working on a Django/Postgres site. Sometimes I work in manage.py shell, and accidentally do some DB action that results in an error. Then I am una

Answer 1

I add the following to my settings file, because I like the autocommit feature when I'm "playing around" but dont want it active when my site is running otherwise.

So to get autocommit just in shell, I do this little hack:

import sys
if 'shell' in sys.argv or sys.argv[0].endswith('pydevconsole.py'):
    DATABASES['default']['OPTIONS']['autocommit'] = True

NOTE: That second part is just because I work in PyCharm, which doesnt directly run manage.py