Re: Fellow Reports -- October 2020

2020-10-27 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hi all. Calendar Week 43 -- ending 25 October. Triaged: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32131 -- ManifestStaticFilesStorage should also check in debug mode whether referenced file actually exists (wontfix) https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32129 -- Confusing documentation on how

Re: Improved labels for M2M relations

2020-10-27 Thread Julian Klotz
Hi Adam, thanks for picking this up so quickly. I considered setting custom “through” models to set verbose name and __str__, but I currently can’t “afford” changing all m2m fields throught the application. Here’s the feedback I got concerning the usability issues (e.g. for MediaItem_pieces_re

Re: Improved labels for M2M relations

2020-10-27 Thread Julian Klotz
… one last thought: The verbose name could be: “Media Item-Piece relation” The string presentation could be: “Relation to ”, e.g. “Relation to Piece xyz” Together: *Media Item-Piece relation: Relation to Piece xyz (ID: 11773)* Julian Klotz schrieb am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2020 um 09:30:59 UTC+

Re: Instance Based Management?

2020-10-27 Thread Tom Forbes
I think what Mathew really wants is support for table partitioning. You can get this right now with this library[1] for postgres. I’m not sure if this makes sense to add to core, however support is quite broad (MYSQL, MariaDB, Postgres and Oracle). 1. https://django-postgres-extra.readthedocs.

Re: Instance Based Management?

2020-10-27 Thread Matthew Amstutz
The idea was to automatically generate a table with auto generated fields that gets arbitrarily connected to any content that can be spawned by usersThen I realized this is pretty much an M2M field with extra steps but it wouldn't let me delete the post lol. But I didn't know about table pa

Re: Instance Based Management?

2020-10-27 Thread Adam Johnson
> > Thanks again everyone, sorry for the ridiculously stupid post lol (I swear > I'm not 100% new) Self-insulting is not tolerated on this list! You're not stupid, nor was your post. It's an interesting problem to have, thank you for posting. If indexes aren't working, partitioning does seem to

Re: Instance Based Management?

2020-10-27 Thread Matthew Amstutz
Thanks Adam! I'll do some experimenting and see what I can come up with! Also, I'll stop insulting myself lol. I wasn't expecting such polite replies, everyone has been telling me that alot of developers are mean to newbies. I've been coding for 2 years and using django for a year and a half; I'v