供您参考，模型中的on_delete参数与它听起来的相反。你把on_delete放在一个模型的外键(FK)上，告诉Django如果你在记录上指向的FK条目被删除了该怎么办。我们商店使用最多的选项是PROTECT、CASCADE和SET_NULL。以下是我总结出的基本规则:

Use PROTECT when your FK is pointing to a look-up table that really shouldn't be changing and that certainly should not cause your table to change. If anyone tries to delete an entry on that look-up table, PROTECT prevents them from deleting it if it is tied to any records. It also prevents Django from deleting your record just because it deleted an entry on a look-up table. This last part is critical. If someone were to delete the gender "Female" from my Gender table, I CERTAINLY would NOT want that to instantly delete any and all people I had in my Person table who had that gender. Use CASCADE when your FK is pointing to a "parent" record. So, if a Person can have many PersonEthnicity entries (he/she can be American Indian, Black, and White), and that Person is deleted, I really would want any "child" PersonEthnicity entries to be deleted. They are irrelevant without the Person. Use SET_NULL when you do want people to be allowed to delete an entry on a look-up table, but you still want to preserve your record. For example, if a Person can have a HighSchool, but it doesn't really matter to me if that high-school goes away on my look-up table, I would say on_delete=SET_NULL. This would leave my Person record out there; it just would just set the high-school FK on my Person to null. Obviously, you will have to allow null=True on that FK.

下面是一个模型的例子，它可以做到这三件事:

class PurchPurchaseAccount(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    purchase = models.ForeignKey(PurchPurchase, null=True, db_column='purchase', blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE) # If "parent" rec gone, delete "child" rec!!!
    paid_from_acct = models.ForeignKey(PurchPaidFromAcct, null=True, db_column='paid_from_acct', blank=True, on_delete=models.PROTECT) # Disallow lookup deletion & do not delete this rec.
    _updated = models.DateTimeField()
    _updatedby = models.ForeignKey(Person, null=True, db_column='_updatedby', blank=True, related_name='acctupdated_by', on_delete=models.SET_NULL) # Person records shouldn't be deleted, but if they are, preserve this PurchPurchaseAccount entry, and just set this person to null.

    def __unicode__(self):
        return str(self.paid_from_acct.display)
    class Meta:
        db_table = u'purch_purchase_account'

作为最后的花边新闻，您知道如果您没有指定on_delete(或没有指定)，默认行为是CASCADE吗?这意味着如果有人删除了您的gender表中的一个性别条目，那么具有该性别的任何Person记录也会被删除!

我会说，“如果有疑问，设置on_delete=models.PROTECT。”然后测试你的应用程序。您将很快发现哪些fk应该标记为其他值，而不会危及任何数据。

此外，值得注意的是，on_delete=CASCADE实际上没有添加到任何迁移中，如果这是您选择的行为的话。我想这是因为它是默认的，所以把on_delete=CASCADE等同于什么都不放。

on_delete方法用于告诉Django如何处理依赖于你删除的模型实例的模型实例。(例如一个ForeignKey关系)。on_delete =模型。CASCADE告诉Django级联删除效果，即继续删除依赖模型。

Here's a more concrete example. Assume you have an Author model that is a ForeignKey in a Book model. Now, if you delete an instance of the Author model, Django would not know what to do with instances of the Book model that depend on that instance of Author model. The on_delete method tells Django what to do in that case. Setting on_delete=models.CASCADE will instruct Django to cascade the deleting effect i.e. delete all the Book model instances that depend on the Author model instance you deleted.

注意:on_delete将在Django 2.0中成为必选参数。在旧版本中，它默认为CASCADE。

这是完整的官方文件。

CASCADE也会删除与之相连的对应字段。

假设您有两个模型，一个名为Person，另一个名为Companies。

根据定义，一个人可以创建多家公司。

考虑到一个公司可以有且只能有一个人，我们希望当一个人被删除时，与他相关的所有公司也都被删除。

我们首先创建一个Person模型，像这样

class Person(models.Model):
    id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.id+self.name

然后，Companies模型看起来像这样

class Companies(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    description=models.CharField(max_length=10)
    person= models.ForeignKey(Person,related_name='persons',on_delete=models.CASCADE)

注意on_delete=models的用法。模型公司中的CASCADE。也就是说，当拥有公司的人(类person的实例)被删除时，删除所有公司。

删除父对象时删除数据库中的所有子字段，然后使用on_delete，如下所示:

class user(models.Model):
    commodities = models.ForeignKey(commodity, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

重新定位你对“CASCADE”功能的思维模式，将FK添加到一个已经存在的CASCADE(即瀑布)中。这个瀑布的源是一个主键(PK)。删除向下流动。

因此，如果您将一个FK的on_delete定义为“CASCADE”，那么您将把这个FK的记录添加到一个源于PK的级联删除中。FK的记录可能参与这个级联，也可能不参与(“SET_NULL”)。事实上，具有FK的记录甚至可能阻止删除流!用“PROTECT”建造一座大坝。