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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Setting a default value for a new required field in migrations


We have persisted many games in our database and added a new owner field for the games that is a required field. We don't want to delete all the existing games, and therefore, we will take advantage of some features in Django that make it easy for us to make the changes in the underlying database without losing the existing data.

Now, we need to retrieve the id for the superuser we have created to use it as the default owner for the existing games. Django will allow us to easily update the existing games to set the owner user for them.

Run the following commands to retrieve the id from the auth_user table for the row that whose username is equal to 'superuser'. Replace superuser with the user name you selected for the previously created superuser. In addition, replace user_name in the command with the user name you used to create the PostgreSQL database and password with your chosen password for this database user. The command...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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