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authorPreston Holmes <preston@ptone.com>2013-03-18 17:09:49 -0700
committerPreston Holmes <preston@ptone.com>2013-03-18 17:09:49 -0700
commit5180e40bee92edc4ef00d593a4609ff3a5295c90 (patch)
treede1ac750f097f3db4994eca761b43d31d60c0937
parent31b5275235bac150a54059db0288a19b9e0516c7 (diff)
parent36b45611bcaee0ba55b40384f29e8b6546f109bb (diff)
Merge pull request #926 from catalanojuan/adds-dates-containing-zeros-note-to-docs
Added warn note to docs about MySQL issues with 0000-00-00 date strings
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@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ required for full MySQL support in Django.
1.2.1p2 or newer, then delete the ``sets.py`` file in the MySQLdb
directory that was left by an earlier version.
+.. note::
+ There are known issues with the way MySQLdb converts date strings into
+ datetime objects. Specifically, date strings with value 0000-00-00 are valid for
+ MySQL but will be converted into None by MySQLdb.
+
+ This means you should be careful while using loaddata/dumpdata with rows
+ that may have 0000-00-00 values, as they will be converted to None.
+
.. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
Creating your database