Hi everyone! I’ve got a bit of a pickle, hopefully you can help. First: Django 5.0.3, Python 3.10, Postgres back end I have two Models: Criterion and Spell class Criterion(models.Model): value1 = models.IntegerField() value2 = models.IntegerField() operator = models.IntegerField() …

Are you passing the ignore_conflicts option to bulk_create?

It helps confirm I’m not totally crazy, thank you! I’m basically doing what the solution describes there, doing bulk_create on the through model. But repeated entries on that list throw an IntegrityError.

That is helpful indeed, and I saw in the generated SQL that “ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING” is being used as well. That helps me get past the IntegrityError, though now the repeated Criterion are being dropped. I’ll likely have to do some deep diving into what’s actually happening under the hood and possi…

If you just need to know how many times a criterion is repeated on a spell, you could create a custom through class, and store it as an integer, thus avoiding to violate the unique constraint. This will also make the through table smaller, and have better indexing. The documentation for setting a …

Unique constraint on M2M Through

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coditza March 27, 2024, 5:37pm 2

Would this help?

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Unique constraint on M2M Through

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