Re: Should (or can) you have many to many relationship with abstract base class

I had a dim memory about this and found this link http://www.objectmatter.com/vbsf/docs/maptool/ormapping.html which describes three ways (which as I recall are the standard ways) to map an object hierarchy onto relational tables. None of the ways seem very pretty but as Kurt says there is what

Re: Should (or can) you have many to many relationship with abstract base class

You're mixing two metaphors and will run into troubles, just accept that relational databases are not an inherited object model. But to answer your question consider the following: table PetType: int id string name int number_of_legs table Pet int id int type_id // foreign key

Should (or can) you have many to many relationship with abstract base class

I am fairly new to Django. I have a strong background in object oriented design, but only a shallow familiarity with relational database design. I am trying to develop my models and I have a sort of general philosophical question about what the ORM is capable of, and how it should be used. So l