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Django: what’s new in 6.0

(adamj.eu)
378 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 09 Dec 25 20:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.961s | source
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aynyc ◴[10 Dec 25 13:47 UTC] No.46217665[source]▶
I've been using Django on and off at work for the past few years. I really like it. That being said, I still find its ORM difficult. I understand it now that since it's an opinionated framework, I need to follow Django way of thinking. The main issue is that at work, I have multiple databases from different business units. So I constantly have to figure out a way to deal with multiple databases and their idiosyncrasies. I ended up doing a lot of hand holding by turning off managed, inspectdb and then manually delete tables I don't want to show via website or other reasons. For green webapps we have, django is as good as it gets.
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sgt ◴[10 Dec 25 14:46 UTC] No.46218271[source]▶
Also don't underestimate setting up e.g. views or materialized views even that you can use through the ORM to query. It helps a lot and allows you to combine fine tuning SQL with ease of use through Django, and get a lot of performance out of it. Just remember to create them in the migration scripts.
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1. aynyc ◴[10 Dec 25 16:29 UTC] No.46219777[source]▶
Any docs? Django migration is a HUUGE pain point for us.
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2. WesleyJohnson ◴[10 Dec 25 17:33 UTC] No.46220686[source]▶

  manage.py makemigrations myapp --empty --name add_some_view
(in the migration file)

  operations=[migrations.RunSQL("Create View some_view AS ....", "DROP VIEW IF EXISTS...."]
(in your models.py)

  class SomeView(models.Model):
       class Meta:
           db_table = 'some_view'
           managed = False

  manage.py makemigrations myapp --name add_some_view_model
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3. sgt ◴[10 Dec 25 19:46 UTC] No.46222670[source]▶
An extremely common thing to do. Also great with materialized views. I bet it's documented somewhere in Django's docs.