Django Multi-Table Inheritance VS Specifying Explicit OneToOne Relationship in Models

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Answer 1

Do you need objects of your user classes to act like an auth.User anywhere? That would be the most obvious reason to use inheritance over OneToOne. One pro of the OneToOne approach would be the ease in which you can change over to another User model, if that's a concern.

The real issue I see with what you have above (by either method) is that there doesn't appear to be anything stopping you from having a Principal object and an Administrator object share the same User. OneToOneField can only guarantee a one-to-one mapping between any two relations.