save() By default, after saving, you will see that all fields have been updated in the sql statement, and the value of save is the field value when it was obtained before. It is cached and is not necessarily the latest. It may have been updated elsewhere in the process
UPDATE `pxb_sx2_test` SET `user_id` = 335, `catalog_id` = 12558, `level_id` = 4, `level_status` = 0, `position` = 440, `type` = 2, `add_time` = '2016-09-14 17:44:07', `update_time` = '2016-09-14 17:53:17.077520' WHERE `pxb_sx2_test`.`id` = 175;
update updates the specified field
UPDATE `pxb_sx2_test` SET `position` = 441 WHERE `pxb_sx2_test`.`id` = 1751;
If both are used at the same time, or in different places, but they may be updated at the same time, there will be a chance of updating, but the value in the database will not change. In fact, after update, the outdated field value happened to be saved, so it seemed that it was not updated. After Django 1.5, save can add parameters to only update specified fields. Reference
test.position = 441 test.save(update_fields=['position'])