Voice Gate: Enable the metricity database for the site

Currently, our site only uses the main site database in our postgres. For the Voice Gate project, we will need to be able to retrieve data from another database in the same postgres server - the metricity database.

Django happily supports multiple databases, so let’s take the steps necessary to enable access to this database for the site.

What you need to do

• Add the database to settings.py
• Figure out how this will affect local dev, and make any necessary changes. We will probably need to add a line somewhere so that the metricity database (and maybe some dummy data?) will be added to the local docker postgres, or I imagine it will complain.
• Ensure an appropriate postgres image setup allows for multiple database creation on new deployments, possibly through a single SQL file within /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d.

[lemonsaurus]

Okay. So it supports it just fine, it just has to be approached in a particular way. I got a bit worried when you said it doesn’t support it, because it sounded like it was the postgres itself that didn’t support it, not environment variables or whatever.

Okay yeah, we should add this to the issue specification. Would you mind just editing my OP?

[jb3]

Done.