we use UUIDField for all primary keys on our models we have a requirement to have an autoincrementing field as well One cannot simply add an AutoField to the model, as it is required to be primary key, and we already have a primary key. Have added a PositiveBigIntegerField for this purpose, and a…

@jaddison you might also be interested in this accepted feature request to include a non-primary key serial field to contrib.postgres . With the recent extended support for db_returning, generated, and db_default in main I suspect this one might be easier to implement now if you want to have a shot …

Django 4.2, is a 2nd autofield-like field on a model possible?

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KenWhitesell February 20, 2024, 9:28pm 2

See the ticket #8576 (Multiple AutoFields in a model) – Django and the thread at Rationale for unique AutoField's

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Django 4.2, is a 2nd autofield-like field on a model possible?

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