Possibly. I have never heard of this and I do not do it. If I were just making random applications for distribution to others I might consider it, but most of the time I am making an application for a specific purpose or organization/company. In that case, I create a project for the org/company/website and put the separate apps (based on function) under the project.
On Sep 6, 4:49 pm, "Adam Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/6/07, Brian Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well, by its nature, each Django project has its own DB. Multi-db > > support is coming soon, but not in trunk yet. > > > If these are all applications that belong to the same project, Django > > is not designed to handle them on a per-DB basis. The convention > > Django uses is a DB for the project and <appname>_<modelname> for the > > tables. This should not prevent any conflicts since a Python error > > would occur if you duplicated a model within your app's model. I am > > not aware of any MySQL limit on tables per DB, nor should it make a > > difference from a performance perspective. Just keep in mind that > > these apps will all share a single admin interface, and while there > > are some access controls, they may not be granular enough for what you > > need. That may drive your requirement to move some of these apps to a > > separate project. > > This actually brings up an issue. I've heard that many Django developers > don't > use projects at all, that they just use apps. Is this correct? Should I > default to one > project and break it up into smaller ones if the need arises? > > On Sep 6, 4:27 pm, "Adam Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm moving old php apps to Django. All the old php apps each have their > > own > > > DB. So I'm deciding now if I should just put everything inside a big DB. > > I > > > think when I'm all done, I could easily push 200 tables. Almost all of > > these > > > are intranet apps, so the load is pretty small. Is one large DB an > > issue, or > > > are there any other problems I should look out for? > > > > -- > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Adam Jenkins > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 312-399-5161 > > > --------------------------------------- > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Adam Jenkins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 312-399-5161 > --------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
