Django: Force select related?

Question

I\'ve created a model, and I\'m rendering the default/unmodified model form for it. This alone generates 64 SQL queries because it has quite a few foreign keys, and those in tur

Answer 1

Create a custom models.Manager and override all the methods (filter, get etc.) and append select_related onto every query. Then set this manager as the objects attribute on the model.

I would recommend just going through your code and adding the select_related where needed, because doing select_related on everything is going to cause some serious performance issues down the line (and it wouldn't be entirely clear where it's coming from).