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Re:Django Garnett – simple multilingual models for Django by Grollicus on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:50AM (#30499265)
They seem to store all translated strings in a single jsonfield instead of using a separate column for each language.

That means there's a bit more overhead while loading (and you can't exclude unneeded language fields), but it allows dynamically changing languages during runtime without needing a migration.

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Re:Django Garnett – simple multilingual models for Django by andrewingram on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:28AM (#30500828)
With Django's ORM and PostgreSQL, it is possible to map specific keys of a JSONField to an annotation. But I don't know if the overhead of doing this would undo the gains from not sending data for every language in the query result.
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