> I am trying to run a django + fastcgi + lighttpd setup. I would like > to avoid a database as much as possible. > > I would like to know if django supports session management with data > stored in RAM or file instead of only a database.
Without knowing *why* you would "like to avoid a database as much as possible", it's tough to know exactly what would be helpful. Session management /can/ be pushed into cookies, with all relevant information pushed into a cookie from which you determine the user's state. This, however, doesn't persist the information so if they close their browser or reboot or simply borrow a neighbor's browser, they won't be able to pick up where they left off. Additionally, content is usually persisted, so anything worth doing on a web page is usually worth saving in a DB. On top of such problems, it's best to keep the cookie-size limited as it's traversing the network so frequently in both directions. And further compounding such hurdles, the Django auth framework expects to work with a DB so you'd have to roll your own auth (which could use a text-file or whatever). If your purpose is to avoid time in the DB, I'm not sure pushing it out to the network transaction (in cookies) is a prudent savings unless you really know what you're doing (and traffic is high enough to demand such measures). If you're looking for simple deployment, sqlite is quite useful, just needing access to the DB file. That's certainly a lot easier than installing and configuring MySQL which in turn is a lot easier than installing and configuring PostgreSQL in my experience. As a subset, for the development server, one can use sqlite with an in-memory database of ":memory:" (IIRC) however, if you have multiple processes spawned via fastcgi, it may not be the *same* memory which would produce a irksome behaviors. I find this best for automated testing, though it can obscure a few DB-specific issues [*] And, my understanding is that sqlite is included in Python5, so if you've got Python5, you don't even have to go through the hoops of getting sqlite installed and talking to Python. Just a few ideas... -tim [*] I haven't yet found a good/easy way to pass DB options to the manage.py script so I can test my .extra() calls and ORM-monkeying against multiple back-ends. Any tips appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
