Django's Migrations: A Retrospective
summary
Adds migrations into core with a concrete design: a schema editor plus field.deconstruct, a loader/graph, an autodetector that diffs States, an optimizer that collapses redundant ops, and an executor/recorder that applies and records results. Claims the new operation-based format removes huge serialized state, handles circular foreign‑key deps, and mostly works for Django 1.7, but flags real limitations: swappable user model cannot change during migrations and there is a MySQL test fixture hack for test performance.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 1:13The Initial Plan
- 2:33The Revised Plan
- 3:10The Revised Revised Plan
- 6:38makemigrations
- 9:52migrate
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