When developing on Windows, only install psycopg2 in test/prod.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All enhancements and patches to cookiecutter-django will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2015-10-19]
+### Changed
+- On Windows, don't install psycopg2 locally. Still install it in test/prod which are assumed to be Unix. (@audreyr)
+
 ## [2015-10-15]
 ### Changed
 - Made `post_gen_hook` function to change secret keys in files more generic (@pydanny)

{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/base.txt

@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@ Pillow==3.0.0
 # Well-built with regular release cycles!
 django-allauth==0.23.0
 
-# For the persistence stores
+{% if cookiecutter.windows == 'y' -%}
+# On Windows, you must download/install psycopg2 manually
+# from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#psycopg
+{% else %}
+# Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter
 psycopg2==2.6.1
+{%- endif %}
 
 # Unicode slugification
 unicode-slugify==0.1.3

{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/production.txt

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 #	production that isn't in development.
 -r base.txt
 
+{% if cookiecutter.windows == 'y' -%}
+# Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter
+# If using Win for dev, this assumes Unix in prod
+# ------------------------------------------------
+psycopg2==2.6.1
+{%- endif %}
+
 # WSGI Handler
 # ------------------------------------------------
 gevent==1.0.2

{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/test.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Test dependencies go here.
 -r base.txt
+
+{% if cookiecutter.windows == 'y' -%}
+# Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter
+# If using Win for dev, this assumes Unix in test/prod
+psycopg2==2.6.1
+{%- endif %}
+
 coverage==4.0
 flake8==2.4.1
 django-test-plus==1.0.9