database specific checks in deserialization

2014-05-12 Thread Riccardo Magliocchetti
Hello, as of 1.6.x loading fixtures with a blank=True IpAddressField field dumped from a db that allows empty string would fail on postgresql because its specialized field inet does not allow empty strings. This issue has been reported in #6233 [1] that have been closed as duplicate of #5622

Why not Single Table Inheritance?

2014-05-12 Thread Thomas Güttler
Single Table Inheritance is used by ruby-on-rails and SQLAlchemy. Are there reasons why it is used in django? I would love to see a polymorphic inheritance solution in django. I know that there are third party apps which provide this, but something like this should be in the core. There was so