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Inherit and rename the table from default setting

I would like to rename the default table comes from Django. Meta does copy the table but the columns are totally difference How can i over come with it?

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Solution

  • The reason this happens is because Session is a concrete model. What here happens is that you specify you want to inherit the Session table. This is implemented in the SQL layer by making a new table that contains, besides the extra fields, a OneToOneField to the parent table, and furthermore this acts as a primary key as well. For more information on how Django handles model inheritance, see the section on Multi-table inheritance in the documentation.

    If you want to implement your own session model, you should inherit from the AbstractBaseSession model [Django-doc]. This is an abstract model that has as fields sesion_key, session_data and expire_date. You can then override or "monkey patch" the get_model_class of the SessionStore.