On 8/8/19 10:34 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>
>> I would be a little cautious about Django.
>
>> Specifically IIRC it insists that tables have a single-column primary
>> keys.
>
> Stuart,
>
> I looked seriously at Django and did not encounter that limitation.
> However,
> I did learn that I'm not a web application developer nor do I want to be.
> The applications I develop, primarily for my own business needs. use
> SQLAlchemy and that allows multi-column primary keys. That's a necessity
> for
> many-to-many tables (or SA classes).
>
> I suspect that Django also allows multi-column primary keys but the syntax
> might not be obvious.
Unfortunately it does not:
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/MultipleColumnPrimaryKeys
Given that the issue:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373
is 14 years old does not inspire confidence that it will change anytime
soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>
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