Fixed #21504 -- Don't shadow database errors when testing for postgis version.

Thanks to trac user paultag for the report.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/operations.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/operations.py
index 1a71be681c..86608afa35 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/operations.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/operations.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from django.contrib.gis.geometry.backend import Geometry
 from django.contrib.gis.measure import Distance
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2.base import DatabaseOperations
-from django.db.utils import DatabaseError
+from django.db.utils import ProgrammingError
 from django.utils import six
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ class PostGISOperations(DatabaseOperations, BaseSpatialOperations):
         else:
             try:
                 vtup = self.postgis_version_tuple()
-            except DatabaseError:
+            except ProgrammingError:
                 raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                     'Cannot determine PostGIS version for database "%s". '
                     'GeoDjango requires at least PostGIS version 1.3. '