What are the downsides of just importing & using SQLAlchemy (which supports composite PK) in a Django program?
On Sep 3, 10:43 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Brendon <brendon.j.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a project where we have an existing database which uses > > composite (multiple) primary keys for some of the tables. I want to > > move everything over from PHP into DJango without changing the DB. > > Reading the DJango docs though, it seems composite primary keys are > > not supported. I looked online and found that someone was working on > > this, but just noticed then that the ticket was closed and marked as > > "wontfix". > > >http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373 > > You must be looking at a different page to me, because this ticket is > open and marked "accepted and assigned" when i look at it. > > > Can anyone tell me for sure if this support has been abandoned or at > > least any information on the status of this? > > > I wasn't sure if this was the best place to ask or django-developers. > > Please let me know i should move this question over. > > Mutli-column composite keys are not currently supported by Django. > Adding support for multi-column keys (primary or otherwise) is > something that has been long discussed, and there is agreement that it > is a desirable feature -- which is why the ticket is marked accepted. > > What is missing is someone to actually do the work. It's easy to get a > basic implementation working, but there are a lot of nasty edge cases > in admin and general usage that need to be resolved. Nothing is going > to get committed to trunk until these issues have been sorted out. > > To the best of my knowledge, nobody is actively working on this at the > moment. If you're interested in contributing, django-developers is the > place to put forward your ideas and plans. > > Yours > Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
