I have a m2m relationship of Posts and Categories. A post can be in any
number of categories, and a category can have any number of posts. This
relation is defined on the Post model:
categories = relation(Category, lazy=True, secondary=PostCategory.__table__,
this question is arising with unusual frequency in recent weeks, which suggests
a shortcoming in the docs. Rather than answering here, I've added what is
hopefully a comprehensive answer to the documentation; it would be helpful if
you could confirm for me that it answers your question, or if
The documentation is fine, I just get lost in it sometimes because there is
so much, and I have a hard time tracking down the specific thing I'm
looking for.
It turns out I was just overcomplicating things. Once I removed 'cascade'
from the ref, everything works as expected. Had I just left
well dont worry, that doc is new as of an hour ago, and I dont think that
behavior is actually explained anywhere; historically, people tend to not worry
about it and it just happens, though there have been stackoverflow questions
about it lately. it's better that it's described.
On Jun 25,
