Robin Munn <robin.munn <at> gmail.com> writes: > Django will only auto-increment fields listed as AutoField. If you use > any other type (CharField, IntegerField), it's assumed that you want > to specify the primary key yourself each time.
The only drawback seems that you can never specify the id when you use AutoField--it is ignored when you save(). Of course, usually you do not want to do this, but, for instance, when importing records from a legacy system you may want to retain the keys. To do this I had to just dbapi directly (though perhaps I could have used the DB module.)
