Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 6999685
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T20:34:26+00:00 2026-05-27T20:34:26+00:00

I have: Model1 Model2 with field ForeignKey(Model1) I want to delete Model1 instance, but

  • 0

I have:

  • Model1
  • Model2 with field ForeignKey(Model1)

I want to delete Model1 instance, but when I do it, the related Model2 instance is deleted too. How to prevent its deletion?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-27T20:34:27+00:00Added an answer on May 27, 2026 at 8:34 pm

    Clear (set to None) the foreign key field of the Model2 instance or point it to some other Model1 instance, before removing the Model1 instance. Otherwise data consistency would be broken if Model1 instance was removed by the Model2 instance not.

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I have a pair of models which I want to reference one another, but
I want to set the default value of my forms 'author' field (models.ForeignKey(User)) to
In my Django project I want to change a model field from ForeignKey to
I want to change a ManyToMany field in a django app. I have the
I have a ManyToMany field with a relationship model. I want a formset, filtered
I have a model Model with a m2m field : user = .. fk
I have model Foo which has field bar. The bar field should be unique,
I have model Article it has field title with some text that may contain
I'd like to have access to one my model field verbose_name. I can get
I have a model Question with a field called userid , before one ask

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.