Override table name(s) in application deployment

Hi all,

I was quite surprised that I couldn't find a way to override table
names for an application's models on a per-deployment basis (i.e. in
settings.py or some other project/site specific file instead of
modifying the models.py file of the app itself)

Although I admit all of these are rare, I think the scenarios of (a)
having table_name naming conflicts between apps or (b) working with
legacy data in existing tables or (c) renaming an app while wanting to
keep the data, would justify the "external" specification of an
application's table names.

In my case I had to rename an application for external reasons, and
would like to continue using the existing data in all my deployments.
Renaming all the tables in the databases would be quite tedious.

The only related thing I could find is http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/891
which wouldn't help in above scenarios anyway.

What do you think? Is there something I've overlooked?

Best,

Flo

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