Re:Surviving Django, if you care about databases
by raverbashing on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:22AM
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Absolute second this
This is more "how to replace your car's stock transmission and cluch for dubious benefits and higher costs"
Django works fine out of the box. The example of "needless migrations" are corner cases more than anything and it's fine to have them. It works. They might be useless but if they're correct in the end, that's fine. DB migration is the one of the last places where I will look for performance over risking correctness.
And if you really need performance in one specific complex query, Django lets you do raw SQL queries just fine. Number of times I saw this being actually needed (in a big project): One.
This is more "how to replace your car's stock transmission and cluch for dubious benefits and higher costs"
Django works fine out of the box. The example of "needless migrations" are corner cases more than anything and it's fine to have them. It works. They might be useless but if they're correct in the end, that's fine. DB migration is the one of the last places where I will look for performance over risking correctness.
And if you really need performance in one specific complex query, Django lets you do raw SQL queries just fine. Number of times I saw this being actually needed (in a big project): One.