Altering database tables in Django

Question

I\'m considering using Django for a project I\'m starting (fyi, a browser-based game) and one of the features I\'m liking the most is using syncdb to automatica

Answer 1

I've been using django-evolution. Caveats include:

• Its automatic suggestions have been uniformly rotten; and
• Its fingerprint function returns different values for the same database on different platforms.

That said, I find the custom schema_evolution.py approach handy. To work around the fingerprint problem, I suggest code like:

BEFORE = 'fv1:-436177719' # first fingerprint
BEFORE64 = 'fv1:-108578349625146375' # same, but on 64-bit Linux
AFTER = 'fv1:-2132605944' 
AFTER64 = 'fv1:-3559032165562222486'

fingerprints = [
    BEFORE, AFTER,
    BEFORE64, AFTER64,
    ]

CHANGESQL = """
    /* put your SQL code to make the changes here */
    """

evolutions = [
    ((BEFORE, AFTER), CHANGESQL),
    ((BEFORE64, AFTER64), CHANGESQL)
    ]

If I had more fingerprints and changes, I'd re-factor it. Until then, making it cleaner would be stealing development time from something else.

EDIT: Given that I'm manually constructing my changes anyway, I'll try dmigrations next time.