#32787: ContentTypes are created instead of renamed when using
SeparateDatabaseAndState
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Reporter: David Seddon | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: Database layer | Version: 3.2
(models, ORM) |
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by David Seddon):
Thanks for the reply!
> If you want to use it to rename models you need to also update content
types in the database_operations.
That's what we recommend to do now at my workplace, but it was hard-won
knowledge involving some forensic work to get to the bottom of what was
going on.
I would argue is that as it stands, the content types hooks are a bit of a
footgun even for experienced developers who need to use
`SeparateDatabaseAndState`. My expectation would have been that using
`SeparateDatabaseAndState` suppressed all database actions, but in fact it
does perform a database action, just the wrong one.
I wonder if an alternative mitigation would be to output to the console
what contenttypes is doing in the `pre_migrate`/`post_migrate` steps, just
so developers are aware this is happening.
Anyway I do appreciate this is probably a pretty niche issue. Let me know
if you change your mind, I'd be happy to put together a pull request.
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