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Django Migrations: A Retrospective
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Andrew Godwin
August 01, 2014
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Django Migrations: A Retrospective
A talk I gave at DjangoCon AU 2014.
Andrew Godwin
August 01, 2014
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Transcript
Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin migrations: a retrospective
Andrew Godwin Author of South migrations library Hi, I'm Author
of 1.7 Django migrations I like my tea iced, and my schemas explicit
Django/Python backend I work for Discovery? Mobile? Storage? UI? On-site?
...auditing? We have it all. We're hiring!
Migrations They're pretty good.
South ...it was good for its time
The Initial Plan Django Schema backend ORM Hooks South 2
Migration handling User interface
The Revised Plan Django Schema backend ORM Hooks South 2
Migration handling User interface Backport for 1.4 - 1.6
The Revised Revised Plan Django Schema backend ORM Hooks Migration
handling User interface
Logically Separate SchemaEditor Schema Migrations field.deconstruct() ModelOptions.apps Operations Loader /
Graph Executor Autodetector Optimiser State
makemigrations field.deconstruct() Loader / Graph Autodetector Optimiser State Writer 1
2 State 3 5 4
migrate SchemaEditor ModelOptions.apps Operations Loader / Graph Executor State 1
2 Recorder 3
Moving South into Django instead, "Adding migrations to Django"
A New Format More concise Declarative Introspectable
Migration actions Frozen ORM
None
In-memory running Creates models from migration sets Autodetector diffs created
from on-disk Used to feed SchemaEditor / ORM
But what went wrong?
Swappable Models
Your migration dependencies myapp/0001 myapp/0002 otherapp/0001 auth/0001 contenttypes/0001
myapp/0001 myapp/0002 otherapp/0001 auth/0001 contenttypes/0001 thirdapp/0001 Your migration dependencies on
swappable models
what? Your migration dependencies on swappable models myapp/0001 myapp/0002 otherapp/0001
auth/0001 contenttypes/0001 thirdapp/0001 ???
what? Your migration dependencies on swappable models myapp/0001 myapp/0002 otherapp/0001
auth/0001 contenttypes/0001 thirdapp/0001 ???
Unmigrated Apps
Test persistence
Test persistence on MySQL
Random Meta options order_with_respect_to? Really?
Proxy Models
But we're close! Django 1.7, coming to a server near
you soon.
Thanks! Andrew Godwin
[email protected]