django-commons/django-polymorphic

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Improved Django model inheritance with automatic downcasting

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Last GitHub push: Sep 2, 2026
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Significant code examples presented in the documentation should be tested Open

documentation testing

django-commons/django-polymorphic#811 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Performance Monitoring Open

testing

django-commons/django-polymorphic#780 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 1, 2026
Support multiple inheritance. Open

enhancement

django-commons/django-polymorphic#727 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 13, 2025
select_related issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#641 · Opened May 2, 2025
can the instance_of Q-object be made to accept a string? Open

enhancement

django-commons/django-polymorphic#505 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 5, 2021
Prefetch's to_attr field is not respected for polymorphic models Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#498 · Opened Oct 9, 2021
hacks for getting around the `select_related` issue from parent on inherited models to avoid n+1 queries? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#436 · 2 reactions · Opened May 20, 2020
`select_related` for a polymorphic model only returns base class objects Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#410 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 4, 2019
Proxy Model Support - Creating base class and querying for proxy model does not return results Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#390 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2019
Creating polymorphic instances in migrations results in invalid model instances (polymorphic_ctype_id is null) Open

django-commons/django-polymorphic#388 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2019
Proxy model needs manager definition Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#376 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 12, 2019
Can't prefetch base instance Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#359 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 9, 2018
Use of proxy models broke polymorphic / some bad ctypes resulted in no results at all Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#358 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 9, 2018
Probable issue on proxy submodels and polymorphic inlines Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#256 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2017
select_related() from a plain model with a ForeignKey to a polymorphic model Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#244 · 14 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2016
Polymorphic Filtering (for fields in inherited classes) enhance Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#233 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2016
select_related and prefetch_related for inherited models Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

django-commons/django-polymorphic#198 · 26 comments · 26 reactions · Opened Feb 12, 2016
GeoDjango support. Open

enhancement

django-commons/django-polymorphic#172 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 23, 2015
NOT NULL Constraint for polymorphic_ctype_id? Open

enhancement

django-commons/django-polymorphic#148 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 10, 2015

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