I'm working with Django 2.2.10.

I have a model called Site, and a model called Record. Each record is associated with a single site (Foreign Key).

After my app runs for a few days/weeks/months, each site can have thousands of records associated with it. I use the database efficiently, so this isn't normally a problem.

In Django Admin, when I try to delete a site however, Django Admin tries to figure out every single associated object that will also be deleted, and because my ForeignKey uses on_delete=models.CASCADE, which is what I want, it tries to generate a page that lists thousands, possibly millions of records that will be deleted. Sometimes this succeeds, but takes a few seconds. Sometimes the browser just gives up waiting.

How can I have Django Admin not list every single record it intends to delete? Maybe just say something like "x number of records will be deleted" instead.

Update: Should I be overriding Django admin's delete_confirmation.html? It looks like the culprit might be this line:

<ul>{{ deleted_objects|unordered_list }}</ul>

Or is there an option somewhere that can be enabled to automatically not list every single object to be deleted, perhaps if the object count is over X number of objects?

Update 2: Removing the above line from delete_confirmation.html didn't help. I think it's the view that generates the deleted_objects variable that is taking too long. Not quite sure how to override a Django Admin view

Add this to your admin class, and than you can delete with this action without warning

  actions = ["silent_delete"]def silent_delete(self, request, queryset):queryset.delete()

If you want to hide default delete action, add this to your admin class

  def get_actions(self, request):actions = super().get_actions(request)if 'delete_selected' in actions:del actions['delete_selected']return actions