On Jan 30, 2:21 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Jan 30, 4:15 pm, Tim Arnold <a_j...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, I have two basic models for abook-productionsite: > >bookconfiguration > > build reports > > > I want to display information for a particularbookso you can drill- > > down from a summary of its configuration and build to a detailed view > > of its configuration and build report. > > > The way I have it set up now is with three urls: > > bookname/summary (aggregates data from both models) > > bookname/configuration > > bookname/build-report > > > People always view the site starting with the summary. So I hit the > > database once for that, and then again for each of the other views > > when they drill-down. > > > I read the docs on caching, but I'm no expert--is caching the smart > > way to handle this? Should I worry about it? > > thanks, > > --Tim > > Short answers: no, caching isn't the way to handle it; and no, you > shouldn't worry about it. > > Caching is best for repeated views of the same page, or multiple pages > where there are repeated complex elements. This isn't your use case - > the only link between the summary and the other pages is that they > refer to the same bookname. The number of repeated elements is very > low, and best handled by simply getting the relevant database objects > each time (this is, after all, what databases do best). > > Unless you're expecting a huge number of views, or have extremely low- > powered database hardware, I wouldn't worry. > -- > DR.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
thanks a lot for taking a look at it. This will be a low traffic site. usually I don't worry about optimizing until later in a project, but I'm so new at django I didn't want to start out doing something stupid. thanks again, --Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
