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Or when accidentally some blocking database driver is used, even when django's ORM is async, a query with mongodb's driver is not async. Or just the filesystem.

Or when accidentally some blocking database driver is used, even when django's ORM is async, a query with mongodb's driver is not async. Or just the filesystem... This harms performance badly, especially if the idea was to run only a few threads. Other than that, it has benefits too! :-)

mrmikardo 4y ago
And indeed, there's an important caveat in the Django 4.1 docs; Note that, at this stage, the underlying database operations remain synchronous, with contributions ongoing to push asynchronous support down into the SQL compiler, and integrate asynchronous database drivers.... https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/4.1/#asynchronous-orm-interface https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/4.1/#asynchro...