Don't you want that non-null column to be a foreign key ? 2009/5/21 Adrian von Bidder <avbid...@fortytwo.ch>: > Hi, > > Is it possible to fetch the values of an autoincrement field without > flushing the object to the DB? > > (In postgres, I obviously can manually fetch nextval of the automatically > generated sequence, but I lose the portability that way ...) > > Why? > > Because I need the id to generate data that will be filled into some (non- > null) columns of the table row. So I can't flush since I'll get an > IntegrityError about non-null columns, and I can't fill those columns > without knowing the id that's going to be assigned. > > (Yes, I can use dummy values, then flush(), and then update the row before > committing. But that's not exactly elegant...) > > cheers > -- vbi > > -- > Fnord. > >
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