Cannot run migrate without access to postgres database

[wftimg]

Similar to #24791, the change for ticket #16969 prevents Django from being able to run the migrate management command when using the PostGIS database backend on shared hosts, where you are not allowed to connect to the "postgres" database.

The traceback, for reference (Django 1.8.1):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 338, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 330, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 390, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 441, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 91, in handle
    connection.prepare_database()
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/base.py", line 36, in prepare_database
    if self.template_postgis is None:
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/utils/functional.py", line 60, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/base.py", line 28, in template_postgis
    with self._nodb_connection.cursor() as cursor:
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 162, in cursor
    cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor())
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 135, in _cursor
    self.ensure_connection()
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 130, in ensure_connection
    self.connect()
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/utils.py", line 97, in __exit__
    six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 130, in ensure_connection
    self.connect()
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 119, in connect
    self.connection = self.get_new_connection(conn_params)
  File "/home/username/lib/python2.7/Django-1.8.1-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", line 172, in get_new_connection
    connection = Database.connect(**conn_params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 164, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for host "[local]", user "username_postgis", database "postgres", SSL off

[Tim Graham]

The root cause is the same as #24791 (also a duplicate of #24795).