About Avoiding for Large Migrations of Getting Terminated

When iterating through all items in a migration, avoid Model.objects.all() without .iterator(). Django's default queryset caches all results in memory. Using .iterator(chunk_size=1000) streams rows without caching, which is critical for large tables.

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