Re: Is there any database ( or other ) magic going on with django properties?

2013-03-12 Thread Bill Freeman
A question is how difficult are the calculations? For example, do they take longer to do than it takes for the extra data to serialized by the database, transmitted over the DB socket by the database, received by the Django DB connection socket, and for Django to deserialize them? If not, then

Re: Is there any database ( or other ) magic going on with django properties?

2013-03-12 Thread Doug S
Thanks for the quick replies. Straight fields it is, that makes things simple. -- 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

Re: Is there any database ( or other ) magic going on with django properties?

2013-03-12 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 12/03/2013 5:09pm, Doug S wrote: I'm considering using django properties on some models that are mostly tabulated numerical data. I'm want to derive some numerical scores from some of the columns of data I'm using as input. If I use properties for these derived scores, what is actually

Re: Is there any database ( or other ) magic going on with django properties?

2013-03-12 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Doug S wrote: > I'm considering using django properties on some models that are mostly > tabulated numerical data. > I'm want to derive some numerical scores from some of the columns of data I'm > using as input. > If I use properties for

Is there any database ( or other ) magic going on with django properties?

2013-03-12 Thread Doug S
I'm considering using django properties on some models that are mostly tabulated numerical data. I'm want to derive some numerical scores from some of the columns of data I'm using as input. If I use properties for these derived scores, what is actually happening. Does Django put these into my