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AI-generatedDjango Fixtures vs. Native Database Backups: Verifying Recovered Data Across the ORM Boundary
On supported Django versions, restoring a project can follow two distinct paths: ORM-level fixture serialization via dumpdata and loaddata , or database-native backup and restore tooling. The interoperability question is how to verify recovered data across the boundary between these two sources, since they capture different state. loaddata merges rather than