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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #28970

Timestamp:: Dec 28, 2017, 8:52:36 AM (6 years ago)
Author:: Tim Graham
Comment:: Resaving the object in post_save() doesn't sound like a common use case (or a wise thing to do, from a performance standpoint). Can you explain your use case?

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 Calling instance.save() inside a post_save signal receiver causes a loop and max recursion error. This problem is very easy to fall into and the best solution at the moment is call the QuerySet update() method, so that the post_save signal is not called in this case.
+Calling `instance.save()` inside a post_save signal receiver causes a loop and max recursion error. This problem is very easy to fall into and the best solution at the moment is call the `QuerySet update()` method, so that the post_save signal is not called in this case.
 This is a very ugly workaround. I think Django should give the option to call save() and explicitly suppress signal emmiting. For example:
+This is a very ugly workaround. I think Django should give the option to call `save()` and explicitly suppress signal emitting. For example:
+instance.save(post_save=False)
+`instance.save(post_save=False)`
 In the above method call, post_save signal would not be sent, and the loop problem would not occurs.