How to delete all the objects which are referring the current object without DELETE_CASCADE

[mohitdu...@gmail.com]

How to delete all the objects which are referring the current object without DELETE_CASCADE

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi,

As I posted on other thread you can do that using meta api.

But why you want to do that manually. DELETE_CASCADE does the same thing exactly.

3.1.2018 14.03 <mohitdu...@gmail.com> kirjoitti:

How to delete all the objects which are referring the current object without DELETE_CASCADE

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[Shem Ogumbe]

Question is, why do that when on_delete=models.CASACADE is there to do it for you?

[James Schneider]

On Jan 3, 2018 4:29 AM, "Jani Tiainen" <red...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

As I posted on other thread you can do that using meta api.

But why you want to do that manually. DELETE_CASCADE does the same thing exactly.

While I don't know the motivations of the OP, one reason you may want to do this is for auditing purposes. There may be a requirement to track additions and removals of records. I don't think a cascade delete would capture enough information in such a case, even with a high level of transaction logging.

-James