I searched the list and it seems the topic has been debated in summer
2006 but don't see any progress was made (at least from what I can see
in the mailing list). To me, model inheritance seems to be a very
important feature. I was hoping that the patch recently submitted by
Alex would solve
Hi, Alex,
Thanks for the update. I just tried the patch (on svn 7020), and found
two problems:
1. Even though the models with "create_db_schema=False" actually will no
longer have tables created in the database, when "syncdb.py" runs the
message still says those tables are created.
2. (More
It's needed for the same reasons that the Model.save() method needs it.
When loading fixtures, you sometimes don't want to touch the incoming
data.
For example, if I have a simple function connected to a pre_save signal
that updates a timestamp:
def update_timestamp(instance, **kwargs):
