Why is post_type a CharField and not a ForeignKey?

Any reason for having post_type as CharField instead of a ForeignKey on the Post model?

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Kaseko
asked 2012-11-08 21:02:26 -0500, updated 2012-11-08 21:02:46 -0500
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I think you are misunderstanding the purpose. Post type is a string "question", "answer", "comment", etc, to distinguish, what of kind is the post. Why should it be a foreign key? It could have been a small int to save bytes, but it is what it is now.

Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (2012-11-08 21:04:09 -0500) edit

It was one thing that stood out when I was looking at the admin interface. I was thinking one helpful feature request would be, e.g, to turn an answer into a comment. But you wouldn't do that through the admin interface anyways.

Kaseko's avatar Kaseko (2012-11-08 22:04:03 -0500) edit
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We have a feature like that in the repository version.

Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (2012-11-08 22:15:30 -0500) edit
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