id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 10304 topics/db/queries.txt about delete() lies! Marc Fargas nobody "queries.txt says: {{{ Keep in mind that this will, whenever possible, be executed purely in SQL, and so the ``delete()`` methods of individual object instances will not necessarily be called during the process. }}} Given how delete() is implemented in QuerySet one would say it's almost impossible to avoid calling the delete() of every object (to not say it does lots of things). Option a would be to fix the docs, but current behaviour makes it almost impossible to delete large querysets without recurring to manual SQL (And dealing with QS cache, etc later). So this may have to be fixed in some way, or a workaround documented. " closed Database layer (models, ORM) 1.0 invalid delete Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0