Multi-tenant Django applications: altering database connection per request?

Question

I\'m looking for working code and ideas from others who have tried to build a multi-tenant Django application using database-level isolation.

Update/Solution

Answer 1

For the record, I chose to implement a variation of my first idea: issue a USE in an early request middleware. I also set the CACHE prefix the same way.

I'm using it on a small production site, looking up the tenant name from a Redis database based on the request host. So far, I'm quite happy with the results.

I've turned it into a (hopefully resuable) github project here: https://github.com/mik3y/django-db-multitenant