On 31/03/2008, at 10:51 PM, Evert Rol wrote: > >> I was wondering why you can only call "python manage.py syncdb" to >> create your databases but after that if you change your models file >> it work create the changes and you have to do them manually using >> SQL? > > I think there are several threads in this discussion group that have > some mention of the hows and whys (google for them), but basically: > it's too complicated, or otherwise very tricky, to alter tables > (altering or adding columns) automatically. In particular, it won't > even work with sqlite (http://www.sqlite.org/omitted.html).
This isn't entirely correct. It can be done; it's just difficult, and involves the production of a temporary table. Another poster has pointed out that Django Evolution [1] is one of several implementations [2] of this functionality. One of these implementations may eventually be merged into trunk, but this won't happen until they are feature complete, and a consensus exists in the community as to the 'best' solution. [1] http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/ [2] http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SchemaEvolution (Full disclosure - I'm a core developer of Django Evolution) 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-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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
