Have a look a this http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4747 & http://trac.woe-beti.de/
On 21 juil, 03:04, CPF_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Ford wrote: > > Hi There, > > > It has been possible in the past to use multiple databases with > > django. There was a branch for it and about a year ago it was bought > > up to date with trunk. However that branch hasn't seen any activity > > for some time and is effectively dead. There's now a (low key) effort > > under way to come up with a new API and to take advantage of the > > recent work in refactoring the database API to again make it possible > > to use multiple databases in your django project. As it stands at the > > moment it's at an early stage, and it's really unlikely that anything > > significant will happen until django 1.0 arrives. > > > My advice based on what you've said above would be to use django's ORM > > for your authentication (and sessions, permissions, groups etc) if > > it's a good fit for you. That way you'd get all of the great time > > saving bits of django (like request.user, perms in the template > > language, authentication cookies etc). In addition to that maybe > > you'd like to think about using a different ORM for talking to the > > other database. There is a project underway on google code to make > > using SQLAlchemy easier with django - this might be the way to go. > > > I'm not sure what others on this mailing list would think about this > > approach... I'd certainly be interested to hear any thoughts! > > > Cheers, > > Ben > > > 2008/7/20 CPF_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dan wrote: > > > >> Most ideally we would like to have it so that the application > > >> uses DB1 > > >> (defined in the settings.py file) as the main database, but > > when > > >> it's > > >> down to users, uses DB2.user as the users table. > > >> Currently we are thinking of using raw sql, but that would > > only be a > > >> last resort preferably. And at that point I'd be more scrambled > > >> on how > > >> to use authenticate together with it. > > > >> If you are using MySQL, you can use the federated engine for tables > > >> that are only "symlinks" to real tables in another database but > > will > > >> act as normal tables when doing regular operations on them. > > > >> It might be possible with other databases too, I don't know. > > > Hi Dan, thanks for the reply. > > > We are indeed using MySQL, and attemipting to symlink (as the mysql > > > documentation at > > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/symbolic-links-to-tables.html) > > > didn't work out ("SQL show index from `users` failed : Table > > > 'bingo.users' doesn't exist" is what webmin said) > > > > If you're implying some other technique, I have no idea what you are > > > talking about - could you please explain, or redirect to a page > > > explaining it? > > > > Thanks. > > Sorry for kicking this subject, but I'd really like to have an > > answer to > > that... > > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Ben Ford > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > +447792598685 > > Hi Ben, > Thanks a lot for the explanation and the insight. I'll be looking up > some of those ideas you mentioned, and the way you explain it is really > the way I would like to do it. > Currently I started development using a standard auth_users but at some > time, I would like to use the users database already existing... > There's the other possibility to change the project originally using the > database. However, regardless, I would still know the way to use > multiple databases, and if it will be integrated in the 1.0 release, I > really believe that I will use the 1.0 a lot. Therefore I'll look for > that feature. > > cpf_ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
