I now realize that primary=True is only one half of the problem. I could not find a way within Django to do something like autoincrement=True to go together with primary=True. At the moment it looks like I would need to go into the database (I'm using MySQL) and set the field to automatically increment.
On Jan 9, 10:21 am, G B Smith <greenblanket.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I have read that thread. But since BigIntegerField is now > available within Django, I would like to handle it from within Django > itself. > > Thus I want to knowif changing the contrib.auth code to explicitly > include a BigIntegerField primary key will have any side-effects (for > example in contrib.admin or elsewhere). > > On Jan 9, 4:06 am, Rolando Espinoza La Fuente <dark...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > An option is to just use ALTER TABLE.. command to change the column type. > > > Regards, > > > ref:http://www.mail-archive.com/django-develop...@googlegroups.com/msg211... > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:51 AM, G B Smith <greenblanket.sm...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > Let's say I know that the number of users of my app is going to be > > > very really really high. And let's also say I want to use the > > > contrib.auth as it is so convenient. > > > > Is it okay if I simply change the code of django.contrib.auth.user to > > > explicitly include an BigIntegerField called id and manually set it to > > > be an auto-incrementing primary key? > > > > Will this have any side effects that I am not aware of? > > > > GBS. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Django users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- > > Rolando Espinoza La fuentewww.rolandoespinoza.info
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