On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Stijn Hoop <st...@sandcat.nl> wrote: > This is rather impossible without natural keys, for I cannot know the > maximum ID of any primary key of tables that they have added data to. > However with natural keys I can do away with recording the numerical > ID of an object so this should be possible.
the best solution isn't natural keys (which are so very seldom a good idea); what you need is UUIDs. there are a couple of wontfix'd tickets on this theme, mostly because the feeling that this doesn't belong to core when it can easily be added by a custom fieldclass. two implementations: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1262/ http://www.davidcramer.net/code/420/improved-uuidfield-in-django.html -- Javier -- 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.
