If it's one to one then the field that maps to the primary key in the other table should be unique. Why not designate that as a primary key?
I was in a similar situation integrating a legacy Access app. I simply added an autonumber id field. Your old app will ignore it but it keeps Django happy. On Nov 10, 11:45 am, "K*K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually this table filed is a one to one mapper to other table's > field. this table doesn't need primary key field. > > But I have to keep the database schema compatible with old system so I > have to keep it. > > On Nov 10, 7:20 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:59 PM, K*K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, all. > > > > How can I create a new table without primary key in Django modeling. ? > > > > I'm porting a old program to Django web framework. After inspect > > > database to modules.py and then syncdb, It create the id filed with > > > primary key attribute, how can I disable this feature ? > > > inspectdb isn't perfect - it's just a starting point that will > > hopefully remove the need to do a lot of typing. It is entirely > > expected that you will need to tweak the model provided by inspectdb. > > If inspectdb is producing an extra 'id' field in the model it > > suggests, just delete that field from the suggested model. > > > However, because of the way Django operates, you will need to nominate > > one of the fields in your model to be the primary key. In your case, > > I'm guessing that inspectdb can't find an obvious candidate for the > > primary key, so it has given up and put an extra 'id' field into the > > definition it suggests. > > > You can choose any field you want to be the primary key (provided it > > actually contains unique data). It doesn't matter what that field is > > called - it just needs to set the primary_key attribute to True. For > > example, if one of your models has a 'name' field that could be used > > as a primary key, you would use a definition something like: > > > name = models.CharField(max_length=40, primary_key=True) > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
