On 23 Nov 2005, at 13:25, Robert Wittams wrote:
Another reason that I really dislike generating a model from a
database:
people have to learn the exact situations in which it will work and
and
won't work. Eg what will it do with field types it doesn't know about,
what if you use some nonstandard half-oo features like postgres has...
In defence of live introspection, Matt Biddulph made the excellent
point at the web frameworks night earlier this week that the Rails
method is extremely useful early on in your design process when you
are rapidly iterating your DB design - i.e. making things up as you
go along :) He's right too - the hoops you have to jump through
changing schema with Django do slow you down if you haven't figured
out your full data model in advance.
