Manager not inherited in model inheritance

[Alex Robbins]

I have a base model that defines some published fields and has a manager that knows how to use them. When other models inherit from it, they get the fields. However, they don't get the manager. (It is intentionally left out ​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/models/base.py#L73)

I know I can just set the manager explicitly on every child model, but that is the sort of thing I was hoping to avoid by using inheritance.

The knowledgeable jdunck explained that a new manager instance has to be made since managers know what model they are for, and the child models need a different manager instance than the parent. It isn't as simple as removing line 77 in the above code.

Still it'd be nice...

[dc]

This works as documented: ​Custom managers and model inheritance. Marking as wontfix, if you disagree please take this to the django-developers mailing list.