Requirements

• Django 1.8+
• PostgreSQL database

Using Django History Triggers

1. Add "history" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
2. Add "history.middleware.HistoryMiddleware" to the end of your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. (Or before, if another middleware needs the history table)
3. Run "manage.py triggers" to create the history schema, history tables, and associated triggers.

Settings

• HISTORY_SCHEMA (default: "history")
• HISTORY_USER_TEMP_TABLE (default: "history_user")
• HISTORY_USER_FIELD (default: "user_id")
• HISTORY_USER_TYPE (default: "integer")
• HISTORY_REQUEST_USER_FIELD (default: "user")
• HISTORY_REQUEST_USER_ATTRIBUTE (default: "pk")
• HISTORY_DB_ROLE (default: settings.DATABASES['default']['USER'])
• HISTORY_IGNORED_TABLES (default: [])
• HISTORY_IGNORED_PREFIXES (default: ["django_", "auth_", "south_"])
• HISTORY_IGNORED_TYPES (default: ["bytea"])
• HISTORY_IGNORED_COLUMNS (default: [])
• HISTORY_USE_TIMEZONES (default: True)
• HISTORY_DEFAULT_USER (default: 0)
• HISTORY_DEFAULT_USER_ERROR (default: False)
• HISTORY_MIDDLEWARE_IGNORE (default: [settings.STATIC_URL, settings.MEDIA_URL])
• HISTORY_JSON (default: False)

Running Unit Tests

docker-compose up --exit-code-from tests