Django save() prohibited to prevent data loss due to unsaved related object

Django 
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# create a new section
p_section = Section(name=control.get('Section', _('Default')))
p_section.save()

# create a new package
p_package = Package(
    name=control.get('Name', _('Untitled Package')),
    package=control.get('Package'),
    section=p_section,
)
p_package.save()

在上例中，p_package.save() 这行发生了错误：

django save() prohibited to prevent data loss due to unsaved related object ‘section’

而经过调试，很明显 p_section 是 save() 过而且非 None 的，但为什么 Django 依旧报错并提示没有 save() 过呢？这个问题曾困扰博主近两个小时，完全找不到头绪。

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# A pk may have been assigned manually to a model instance not
# saved to the database (or auto-generated in a case like
# UUIDField), but we allow the save to proceed and rely on the
# database to raise an IntegrityError if applicable. If
# constraints aren't supported by the database, there's the
# unavoidable risk of data corruption.
if obj and obj.pk is None:
    # Remove the object from a related instance cache.
    if not field.remote_field.multiple:
        delattr(obj, field.remote_field.get_cache_name())
    raise ValueError(
        "save() prohibited to prevent data loss due to "
        "unsaved related object '%s'." % field.name
    )

值得注意的是，Django 源码中：if obj and obj.pk is None，对 model 的主键 Primary Key 进行了检查，如果主键为空，则抛出提示 model 未 save() 过。
而这样的提示显然会误导程序员，让我们看看 Section 类的定义：

id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True, editable=False)

这样做看似没有问题，Section 类成员的增删查改都完全正常，但是如果 Section 在创建时就作为外键赋值，会找不到主键。

If you don’t use AutoField, Django doesn’t know that it needs to update the field after saving.
It assumes that you will always provide a value for the primary key, and if you don’t, that you’ll receive an OperationError from the DB-API. Because you’ve specified AUTO_INCREMENT in the database (or SQLite does that anyway), you aren’t getting that error - the database is filling in a value behind Django’s back.
Effectively this is just a mismatch between your database schema and your model definition.

这是由于程序员对于 Django 模型设计与数据库实际情况不一致所导致的，如果不将字段指定为 Auto Increment，Django 是无法得知新插入的成员主键 id 是多少的。作为 Django 程序员，设计 ORM 模型时应特别注意模型与数据库建表之间的关系，而不能盲目设计。正确的解决方法是，将该字段由 IntegerField 改为 AutoField：

id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, editable=False)

或者，在创建 Section 时指定主键的值：

p_section.id = 1