Refs #26351 -- Added check hook to support database-related checks

Thanks Tim Graham and Shai Berger for the reviews.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/checks.txt b/docs/ref/checks.txt
index c82bd2bc98..a332df2071 100644
--- a/docs/ref/checks.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/checks.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ Django's system checks are organized using the following tags:
 * ``templates``: Checks template related configuration.
 * ``caches``: Checks cache related configuration.
 * ``urls``: Checks URL configuration.
+* ``database``: Checks database-related configuration issues. Database checks
+  are not run by default because they do more than static code analysis as
+  regular checks do. They are only run by the :djadmin:`migrate` command or if
+  you specify the ``database`` tag when calling the :djadmin:`check` command.
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.10
+
+    The ``database`` tag was added.
 
 Some checks may be registered with multiple tags.