Re: need help designing models

On 7/04/2013 4:36pm, surya wrote:
>
> actually, you are right, django models do provide id.. but this uid
> field is something else.. Eg: massachusetts institute of technology. uid
> = MIT..i will be using it as primary key.
>

Doing so raises questions about investing primary keys with real
meaning. It is possible that you have a good reason for doing so but it
is generally a bad idea.

Personally I would go with the Django auto-incrementing primary key and
keep the apparent uid as a CharField attribute of the college.

ymmv

Mike

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