Setting defaults in the DB to support zero-downtime migrations

It can be quite fiddly to support zero-downtime DB migrations in Django. For example see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/data-type-defaults.html for tricks in Postgres; I'll refer to MySQL herein. In general the sequence is to first upgrade the DB schema to the new version, while

Re: GSoc 2018

I don't think think the idea is suitable. It doesn't fit any of the three categories described at https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2018. On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 9:56:59 AM UTC-4, jimw...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've written my draft on Google Docs, here's the url >

Re: GSoc 2018

I've written my draft on Google Docs, here's the url https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hYVKrBJA1GIGYbkdlRG0Sq4GFIQnjw2Jb0QaFbsamLw/edit?usp=sharing Thanks for any comments. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to