Refactoring models from one django application to two

Question

I have an application that has become too large, and I would like to split it into two parts. This is not an easy task with a code name, but I'm more afraid of the data migration that I will have to perform. Is there a proven way to do such things?

My current thoughts are:

• Use south
• Copying models to another application
• Make data migration to copy the corresponding models from one application to another.
• Make another migration that now removes unused models from the old application
• You must execute a script that performs these operations in the correct order.

Has anyone done something like this?

Answer 1

You do not need to migrate the database if you do not want to. Just set the db_tableMeta attribute on your models to refer to the old names and everything will be fine.