> > Model inheritance is not the same as object inheritance. > > If you are doing non abstract inheritance, then there is no difference > between a derived model, and a model that has a foreign key to the > parent class. In a derived model, the foreign key is a OneToOneField, > with null=False, blank=True. In other words, inheritance is exactly > the same as composition for non abstract inheritance. The main > difference is that if you inherit, the fields that are actually in the > parent table magically appear as attributes of your derived object and > all your queries involving this table require a join. Magic is bad, > extra joins are bad, magic that causes extra joins are double bad. >
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