How can I easily mark records as deleted in Django models instead of actually deleting them?

Question

Instead of deleting records in my Django application, I want to just mark them as \"deleted\" and have them hidden from my active queries. My main reason to do this is to give

Answer 1

There are several packages which provide this functionality: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/deletion/

I'm developing one https://github.com/meteozond/django-permanent/ It replaces default Manager and QuerySet delete methods to bring in logical deletion. It completely shadows default Django delete methods with one exception - marks models which are inherited from PermanentModel instead of deletion, even if their deletion caused by relation.