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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2008-09-03 06:14:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2008-09-03 06:14:13 +0000 |
| commit | fd1d986bb115db44ddd242ca1f7f73c604b60b18 (patch) | |
| tree | 2398142c4e92265d54a51709d3be7b8a37fbdbaf /docs/ref/databases.txt | |
| parent | fd78e89d1e36d954960bf97998254c2a3c5f4d56 (diff) | |
Fixed #8802 -- Documented MySQL's usage of 1/0 instead of True/False for model
BooleanFields.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8910 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 66bb836ccc..e484dfd29e 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -228,6 +228,16 @@ storage engine, you have a couple of options. .. _AlterModelOnSyncDB: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AlterModelOnSyncDB +Boolean fields in Django +------------------------- + +Since MySQL doesn't have a direct ``BOOLEAN`` column type, Django uses a +``TINYINT`` column with values of ``1`` and ``0`` to store values for the +:class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField` model field. Refer to the documentation +of that field for more details, but usually this won't be something that will +matter unless you're printing out the field values and are expecting to see +``True`` and ``False.``. + .. _oracle-notes: |