I think it would make a lot of sense to require an explicit `on_delete` when
a ForeignKey is nullable because of the ambiguity concerns raised on Trac.

However I'm not convinced this should be required for non-nullable ones
since, IMHO, CASCADE is the most sensible default in this case.

Le jeudi 26 septembre 2013 14:16:02 UTC-4, Carl Meyer a écrit :
>
> Hi all, 
>
> I filed a ticket last week suggesting that we change the default from 
> on_delete=CASCADE to on_delete=SET_NULL for nullable ForeignKeys.[1] 
>
> There's been some lively discussion on the ticket, and Michael Manfre 
> has suggested that we should instead transition to making on_delete a 
> required argument with no default. This forces the developer to think 
> about what deletion behavior they want, and means that there will never 
> be cascading data loss of any kind unless explicitly requested. 
>
> I think either of these changes, but particularly the latter, is 
> significant enough that it deserves a mention here before a decision is 
> made. 
>
> Any thoughts or arguments that haven't already been presented on the 
> ticket? 
>
> Carl 
>
>
> [1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21127 
>

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