On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Xan wrote: > Well, first of all, thank you for django. I'm not programmer and I > just wanted to code some web app easier as I can do. I tried rails but > there is no free documentation (almost all doc are books and books)
I wasn't charged anything before being allowed to access any of these: http://railsmanual.org/ http://api.rubyonrails.com/ http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Howtos > and there is no have easy way for writing models. `script/generate model foo` seems very easy to me. > With django I found > the easier way for doing it. If you say so. I find the models in Django to be very lacking compared to Rails ActiveRecord models. > Well, secondly I have one question: I have a model A that have a field > "year" that means the year that A was made. I just want to know if > it's best (for performance) to code as: > > class A(models.Model): > year = models.CharField(maxlength=4) > [...] > > or > class A(models.Model): > year = models.PossitiveIntegerField() > [...] > > what it's the best for database performance (I use mysql) For performance an unsigned smallint beats a varchar(4) any day of the week. -- Greg Donald Cyberfusion Consulting http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
