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authorMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2008-11-15 05:56:01 +0000
committerMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2008-11-15 05:56:01 +0000
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[1.0.x] Fixed #9477 -- Removed and edited a bunch of references to "development
version". Some were replaced with versionadded or versionchanged directives. Other, more minor ones, were removed altogether. Based on a patch from James Bennett. Backport of r9454 from trunk. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.0.X@9455 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -151,16 +151,19 @@ DATABASE_ENGINE
Default: ``''`` (Empty string)
-The database backend to use. The build-in database backends are
+The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are
``'postgresql_psycopg2'``, ``'postgresql'``, ``'mysql'``, ``'sqlite3'``, and
``'oracle'``.
-In the Django development version, you can use a database backend that doesn't
-ship with Django by setting ``DATABASE_ENGINE`` to a fully-qualified path (i.e.
+You can use a database backend that doesn't ship with Django by setting
+``DATABASE_ENGINE`` to a fully-qualified path (i.e.
``mypackage.backends.whatever``). Writing a whole new database backend from
scratch is left as an exercise to the reader; see the other backends for
examples.
+.. versionadded:: 1.0
+ Support for external database backends is new in 1.0.
+
.. setting:: DATABASE_HOST
DATABASE_HOST