Re: Recomended front ends?

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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