I think you are looking for a way to provide an abstraction like this http://django-forms-builder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Lorenzo Bernardi < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > >> this is what _relational_ databases are built for. if you have two >> tables, one for the description of the experiment (one record per >> experiment), and another for the statistics (one record per data >> sample, with a foreign key to the experiment record); then fetching >> the description of the experiment, plus all the related data will be >> much faster, simpler, more compact and all-around more efficient than >> having one table per experiment. >> > it looks to me that the resulting code should be more compact but more > difficult to write and maybe too clever for me. I'm writing this code for > someone who is not completely sure of what he really wants (I mean the data > that should be stored in the table) and so the code should be able to > accept some change in the definition of the experiments without breaking > the old data. > >> databases aren't flat files, use them as designed and they'll perform >> very well. >> > > I agree with that. My main worry is that I'm not so familiar with > databases and I hope I can estimate if the code will perform well in real > condition when I'll do some limited tests. > > thanks for the information and I'll give it a try > > sincerely > > L. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/54AEEE0B.3020408%40lpn.cnrs.fr. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ============================================ Timothy Cook LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2B%3DOU3Vuq%3DVj2jPQAkKeRZLiHoDnhpHKwKNu6ryXy1Y15fgMLg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
