Chris, I know this doesn't answer the hard part of your question, but here's a simple way I delete old stuff from a database via an external script that's run by cron:
Item.objects.filter(date_updated__lte = datetime.now() - timedelta (days = 30)).delete() If you use timedelta, you can easily identify records that are too old. As for your complicated references, assuming you don't have cascading deletes happening automatically, you may have to do an objects.filter(), get the results, and iterate through those, deleting their dependencies before deleting them. That may be several levels deep. In any case, make sure you back up your database regularly in case of a mistake, and don't forget to add unit testing with robust fixtures to develop and test this purge feature. Shawn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
