psycopg2.ProgrammingError: autocommit cannot be used inside a transaction

[Gavin Panella]

When running tests I get:

Creating test database for alias 'default'...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/test", line 49, in <module>
    djangorecipe.test.main('oopstools.settings', 'oopstools')
  File ".../eggs/djangorecipe-0.19.2-py2.7.egg/djangorecipe/test.py", line 16, in main
    management.execute_manager(settings, argv=argv)
  File ".../parts/django/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File ".../parts/django/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ".../parts/django/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ".../parts/django/django/core/management/base.py", line 220, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ".../eggs/South-0.7.3_r929-py2.7.egg/south/management/commands/test.py", line 8, in handle
    super(Command, self).handle(*args, **kwargs)
  File ".../parts/django/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 37, in handle
    failures = test_runner.run_tests(test_labels)
  File ".../parts/django/django/test/simple.py", line 359, in run_tests
    old_config = self.setup_databases()
  File ".../parts/django/django/test/simple.py", line 296, in setup_databases
    test_db_name = connection.creation.create_test_db(self.verbosity, autoclobber=not self.interactive)
  File ".../eggs/South-0.7.3_r929-py2.7.egg/south/hacks/django_1_0.py", line 96, in wrapper
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File ".../parts/django/django/db/backends/creation.py", line 351, in create_test_db
    self._create_test_db(verbosity, autoclobber)
  File ".../parts/django/django/db/backends/creation.py", line 416, in _create_test_db
    self.set_autocommit()
  File ".../parts/django/django/db/backends/creation.py", line 472, in set_autocommit
    self.connection.connection.autocommit = True
psycopg2.ProgrammingError: autocommit cannot be used inside a transaction

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

See https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16250. There's an incompatibility between Django 1.3 and python-psycopg2 2.4.2 (oneiric version). Suggested workaround is to use a previous version of python-psycopg2 or to update to django trunk since this won't be in the next point release and AFAICT there's no 1.4 release yet.