Django psql async - what dB backend to use?

Django Internals Async
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Not sure if correct place to post, and this will be an incredible dumb question, but.. how do I know if my async ORM funcs are actually running in async?

Do I need a specific dB backend engine?

Can I log a specific property of the db.connection ?

I ask because it appears as though my ORM funcs like aget() are being called as just get().

Im using a profiler to help debug some performance issues and noticed I never see a Django function call of aget I only ever seen get().

Perhaps this is expected behaviour, but hence I was curious if I could know for sure they’re running in async.

My setup is uvicorn with Django ninja API, and a view marked async with aget() call inside.

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Currently, the async methods in the ORM are thin wrappers around their sync versions.

If you look at the source for the aget method, you will see:

    async def aget(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return await sync_to_async(self.get)(*args, **kwargs)