Django: How to set foreign key checks to 0

Question

Ok so i'm migrating database from sqlite to mysql , i had few errors but i already resolved them. Now i have problem with this option because i don't know how to disable it. I tried

DATABASES = {

 'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
    'NAME': 'slave',                     
    'USER': 'root',                     
    'PASSWORD': 'root',                 
    'OPTIONS': {
                "init_command": "SET foreign_key_checks = 0;",
           },
    'HOST': '',                    
    'PORT': '',                      
   }
}

But it doesn't works and i don't know why.

Ofc i use json files to migration

python manage.py dumpdata --indent 2 --natural > dump.json
python manage.py loaddata dump.json

When I'm loading data on begining i can see:

SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL = 0
SET foreign_key_checks=0

But after some time:

SELECT (1) AS `a` FROM `xxx` WHERE `xxx`.`id` = 8  LIMIT 1
SET foreign_key_checks=1

And then i see exception. Traceback isn't important because it is connected with foreignkeys you can read more here

http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/django-fixtures-with-circular-foreign-keys-480/

I know that i need to disable this option.

I tried :

http://djangosaur.tumblr.com/post/7842592399/django-loaddata-mysql-foreign-key-constraints

But like i said it doesn't work.

Can someone help...

Answer 1

you can put this at the end of your settings.py:

import sys
if 'loaddata' in sys.argv:
    # only change this for loaddata command.
    DATABASES['default']['OPTIONS'] = {
       "init_command": "SET foreign_key_checks = 0;",
    }