Hello everybody I have a model with self reference foreign key :
class Categories(Model.model): category = Model.CharField(...) parent_category = Model.ForeignKey(self, ...) url = Model.CharField(....) an i want to remove items from this table given the url of a category this is a peace of the table : ID category id_parent_category url 1 blabla NULL NULL #this is a root category 2 blala 1 http://www.blabla know for removing the category of the url http://www.blabla i do like this category = Categories.objects.get(url = "http://www.blabla") category.delete() but i want to remove also the parent category so i used the the cascade deleting by default and i write in the model a function delete_all() : def delete_all(): category = Categories.objects.get(url = "....") while category.parent_category : category = category.parent_category category.delete() and i called like this : category = Categories.objects.get(url = "http://www.blabla") category.delete_all() the problem now it's that i have lot of categories in the table and with this way it's take lot of time to remove them. someone have a better idea to remove them , and sorry for this long post -- 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 at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.