Django 1.6 Postgis 2.x detection broken

[Matthias84]

Hi, I realy enjoy (geo)Django to rapidly develop smal GIS applications for some time now. Unfortunatly, I guess I found a bug:

If you install Django and try to add GIS functionality thanks to Postgres+PostGIS, django seems to be unable to detect PostGIS correctly and reports at syncdb and similat commands:

Cannot determine PostGIS version for database "django_geotest". GeoDjango requires at least PostGIS version 1.3. Was the database created from a spatial database template?

There is a workaround by faking the postgis version manually, that work for me: ​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10584852/my-postgis-database-looks-fine-but-geodjango-thinks-otherwise-why

My setup:

• Linux Mint 17
• Python 2.7 and venv
• Django 1.6.8
• Postgres 9.3 and PostGIS 2.1 following the official tutorial

[Tim Graham]

Could you please try with Django 1.7.1? Django 1.6 is only receiving security updates, so if this issue is fixed in 1.7, we can close this ticket.

[Claude Paroz]

To be sure it's not an unknown issue, could you please try to debug the error raised by postgis_version_tuple() located in django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/operations.py?
It could also be triggered by running the following at a Django shell:

from django.db import connection
print(connection.ops.postgis_version_tuple())