pbx wrote: >I've been banging my head against some similar problems recently, >mostly with legacy data that's poorly normalized. One optimization/hack >that was suggested to me was adding a field that's only used for >sorting (or selecting, as the case may be) -- like your hypothetical >concatenated string -- and generating it at creation/update time with a >pre-save hook. > > On pre-save of what? When you do
entry.authors.add(Author(...)) ... entry's save() isn't called (or is it?) and author's save() is called before it is linked to the entry. I think one can update this field in a manipulator or a view but it requires to remember to do it only this way throughout the project. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---