django-postgres¶
Adds first-class support for PostgreSQL features to the Django ORM.
Planned features include:
Obviously this is quite a large project, but I think it would provide a huge amount of value to Django developers.
Why?¶
PostgreSQL is an excellent data store, with a host of useful and efficiently-implemented features. Unfortunately these features are not exposed through Django’s ORM, primarily because the framework has to support several SQL backends and so can only provide a set of features common to all of them.
The features made available here replace some of the following practices:
- Manual denormalization on
save()
(such that model saves may result in three or more separate queries). - Sequences represented by a one-to-many, with an
order
integer field. - Complex types represented by JSON in a text field.
Contents¶
This is a WIP, so the following list may grow and change over time.