The Django Book alludes to this, and maybe the comments there will help you.
Go to http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter05/ and search for this paragraph: "Finally, note we haven’t explicitly defined a primary key in any of these models. Unless you instruct it otherwise, Django automatically gives every model an auto-incrementing integer primary key field called id. Each Django model is required to have a single-column primary key." Jared On Jan 9, 3:45 pm, Thorsten Sanders <thorsten.sand...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering if it is possible to still use the django orm without > having a primary key at all, I currently got a table holding 61 million > entries soon gonna expand to hold 600 million entries, that table never > need to identify one entry alone its only to pull off statistics based > on other fields, so far I dropped the primary key index in the database > and all works fine, but I know the orm always want a primary key, would > it still work if I for example claim one of the fields which aren't > unique as the primary key? > > Or is the only way to do it, use the cursor or even mysqldb directly? > > Greetings, > Thorsten -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
