Celery and transaction.atomic

Question

In some Django views, I used a pattern like this to save changes to a model, and then to do some asynchronous updating (such as generating images, further altering the model) ba

Answer 1

"Separate task" = something that is ran by a worker.

"Celery worker" = another process.

I am not aware of any method that would let you have a single database transaction shared between 2 or more processess. What you want is to run the task in a synchronous way, in that transaction, and wait for the result... but, if that's what you want, why do you need a task queue anyway?