Re: extending the User profile - which way to go?

You haven't really provided a reason why to 'do it the django way', rather than inheriting from User.

You do make a valid point about the separate data being in a different table: the difference would be that with using UserProfile, you need to either do the .select_related() yourself, of have a second db query when you do a .get_profile(). With the inheritance method, django will do the joins for you.

This may actually bite: there are some circumstances where a join is more expensive than a second query. In either case, right now is probably not the time to worry about it. Wait until it becomes a performance issue.

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