On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:36 -0700, Brian P Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > I was working on moving an old site from php to django and found that > I was using INSERT...SELECT... queries in a couple places. The point > of these queries is to take a group of rows using the SELECT subquery > and insert them all at once without having to iterate over them in > your code. Ideally, you save some time since the database never has > to send you anything, and all you have to send it is a single > INSERT...SELECT... statement.
What is the use-case for something like this in Django? The only times we do SQL inserts are when we're saving a model instance or updating a many-to-many relation. I can't see either of those really needing this type of functionality, but I'd be interested to hear the use-case you have in mind. Malcolm -- Everything is _not_ based on faith... take my word for it. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
