Question

I have a Django project to track our company’s restructuring projects. Here’s the very simple model:

class Project(models.Model):
    code = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=60)

class Employee(models.Model):
    project = models.ForeignKey(Project)
    employee_id = models.IntegerField()
    country_code = models.CharField(max_length=3)
    severance = models.IntegerField()

Due to regulations in some European countries, I’m not allowed to keep employee-level severance information in a database that sits on a box outside of that country.

In Django, how do I manage the need to have my Employee table split across multiple databases based on an Employee attribute (i.e. country_code) in a way that doesn’t impact anything else in the project (e.g. views, templates, admin)?

Thanks,

Mike

Answer 1

You might want to check out Django’s multiple database support – you could keep your Employee information in a database based on the country_code attribute, although it might take some hacking to make your using statements work correctly when you’re querying. Will you know what country_code you’re working with when it comes time to query an Employee?