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
16576	Allow working with tables that belong to other users in Oracle	woodlee	nobody	"When using Django against an Oracle DB that has existing tables, Django does not seem to provide any facility for referencing tables that belong to another user/schema.

It is possible to work around this using dot-syntax notation to specify the user (by setting db_table in the model's Meta class as, e.g. “USERNAME.MY_29_BYTE_TABLE_NAMEXXXXXXXX”), but this can lead to the overall ""table name"" (as perceived by Django) exceeding the 30 byte maximum set in django.db.backends.oracle.base.DatabaseOperations.max_name_length, triggering Django's name truncation behavior (i.e., replacing bytes 27+ of the name with a 4-byte hash) such that Django winds up querying against an nonexistent table name.

Might it be possible to add a new attribute to the model's Meta class, something like db_schema or db_user? And/or, perhaps, to have Django not do its ""truncation trick"" when the table name has been manually specified via the db_table attribute?
"	New feature	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	1.3	Normal	duplicate	db_table		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0