Django: Making ForeignKey not create a back-reference

Question

I know that I can use ForeignKey 's related_name argument to control what the back-reference's name will be. But is it possible to avoid creating a back-reference completely?

(eg, I have in Car a field ForeignKey(Person), and I don't want Person to have an attribute that leads backs to Car.)

Answer 1

For those coming from Google: use a + in the related_name field to prevent creating a back reference field.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.related_name

Answer 2

Why would you want to do this? You don't have to use it if you don't want to.

In any case, the back-reference is only a code shortcut - it's exactly equivalent to Car.objects.filter(person_id=person.id) .