I replied to Ben via email, but for the group, again: multi-db needs a new maintainer. I don't have the time to keep up with merging it, let alone to add new features or complete the documentation. I think Ben has some excellent ideas here and would be a great maintainer candidate.
JP On Jun 5, 12:27 am, "Ben Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi JP, > I've been using your multiple-db-support for sometime now and i wondered if > you are still actively developing it? I have a couple of suggestions/queries > to do with a few of my specific needs and I would guess those of others... > There are a couple of tickets about this on trac, but I might try and do > some bits independently so I wanted to ask for your feedback... > - I'd really like if I could define a FK relationship that spans > databases, at present that will work but the backwards relationship is > broken and it throws a validation error. > - I'd like this 'spanning foreignkey' to not break the django ORM... so > that Model.objects.filter(fk_class__column='whatever') would still work. > I'm guessing that this would be quite a lot of work... Probably consisting > of: > - A new type (or types) of Field, perhaps OtherDBForeignKey or something > > - A new type of descriptor for each of these new field types > - Some new logic in django.db.models.query to catch the case of a db > spanning relationship and split the queries up > - Finally some way to build the sql so that it looks like SELECT > [columns,] from first_table where pk in (list_of_pk_values); the list will > be generated from a separate query as a result of splitting the queries up > in the last step. > What do you think about the amount of work that would be needed to get all > this working? > As an aside i have a copy of multiple-db-support that I've merged with trunk > as of rev 5371, it might be good to get this checked into django so other > people can work on it, if there's still any interest... > Thanks in advance, > Ben > > -- > Regards, > Ben Ford > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +628111880346 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
