On Oct 6, 10:09 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally I'd look pretty closely at the need to store a value dependent on > the primary key in some other field of the model. Is this really absolutely > necessary? > > Karen
In relational models it's pretty standard to use the primary key as the lookup in other tables. One reason is that it's the unchanging way of identifying a row. Names, addresses, and the like, all change. The row and its ID number stay the same. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
