Circular dependency in Django ForeignKey?

Question

I have two models in Django:

A:
  b = ForeignKey(\"B\")

B:
  a = ForeignKey(A)

I want these ForeignKeys to be non-NULL.

However, I can

Answer 1

If this is really a bootstrapping problem and not something that will reoccur during normal usage, you could just create a fixture that will prepopulate your database with some initial data. The fixture-handling code includes workarounds at the database layer to resolve the forward-reference issue.

If it's not a bootstrapping problem, and you're going to want to regularly create these circular relations among new objects, you should probably either reconsider your schema--one of the foreign keys is probably unnecessary.