How do I tell Django to not create a table for an M2M related field?

Question

I\'m using this little jewel of a Django code snippet to edit a ManyToManyField from both directions:

class ManyToManyField_NoSyncdb(models.ManyToManyField):         


        

Answer 1

The "managed" meta option for models might be helpful. From http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/options/#managed

If a model with managed=False contains a ManyToManyField that points to another unmanaged model, then the intermediate table for the many-to-many join will also not be created. However, the intermediary table between one managed and one unmanaged model will be created.

If you need to change this default behavior, create the intermediary table as an explicit model (with managed set as needed) and use the ManyToManyField.through attribute to make the relation use your custom model.