Maybe the documentation is deliberately missing it because it's not supposed to have to be documented since it's supposed to just work. But as I'm suspecting, it doesn't.
On 10 June 2010 02:53, Thomas Guettler <h...@tbz-pariv.de> wrote: > The documentation says django emulates "ON DELETE CASCADE": > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#deleting-objects > > But it is missing how to emulate ON DELETE SET NULL. > > In this thread Kevin Howerton posted an abstract base class to emulate ON > DELETE SET NULL. But this does not work if you bulk delete with a query set. > > I opened a new ticket: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13731 > > Thomas > > Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Peter Bengtsson <pe...@fry-it.com> wrote: >>> On 8 June 2010 13:09, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Peter Bengtsson <pete...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> I've now had to learn this the hard way by having real live data >>>>> deleted from my database on two production projects and it pisses me >>>>> off big time every time. >>>>> >>>>> I can accept that NOT nullable foreign relations cascade the delete >>>>> but not if they have null=True on them. Example: >>>> Actually, this looks to be fixed in 1.2. What version are you >>>> running? Closed ticket (with test cases) here: >>>> http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9308 >>>> >>> I'm running Django 1.2.1 so perhaps it's not fixed. >>> Sigh. I have to make a test case to prove it. >> >> Looking at Trac, #9308 was fixed in r10822, so it should be fixed in >> 1.1, and it was ported back to 1.0.X as well. >> >> We pretty clearly document that our deletion scheme emulates "ON >> DELETE CASCADE"; if you can provide evidence to the contrary, please >> open a ticket. >> >> Yours, >> Russ Magee %-) >> > > -- > Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com fun crosstips.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
