Question

I have a Django model:

class Note(models.Model) : 
    text = models.TextField() 
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User) 

If Note and User are located on different databases, would the
following still work?

note = Note(text='hello world', owner=request.user) 

I understand that join will not work across databases, but will
creating object instances using FK like above still work?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Django does not support cross-database relations, as stated in their documentation: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/db/multi-db/#cross-database-relations

So no, your snippet won’t work.