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Expand Up @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ This second PR will contain only the migration and related boilerplate.

### Foreign Keys

Creating foreign keys is mostly fine, but for some large/busy tables like `Project`, `Group` it can cause problems due to difficulties in acquiring a lock. You can still create a Django level foreign key though, without creating a database constraint. To do so, set `db_constraint=False` when defining the key.
Creating foreign keys is mostly fine, but for some large/busy tables like `Project` and `Group` the migration can fail due to difficulties in acquiring a lock on the table. The general procedure here is to retry the migration until it goes through - The migration framework adds a lock acquisition timeout, so it's safe to do this.

### Renaming Tables

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