[1.7.x] Fixed #23421 -- Corrected TEST SERIALIZE setting.

Thanks gkoller for the report and Markus Holtermann for review.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt b/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
index ae0e78ce8e..0c7ca724fd 100644
--- a/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
@@ -507,8 +507,14 @@ can be useful during testing.
     ``serialize`` determines if Django serializes the database into an
     in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database
     state between tests if you don't have transactions). You can set this to
-    False to significantly speed up creation time if you know you don't need
-    data persistence outside of test fixtures.
+    ``False`` to speed up creation time if you don't have any test classes
+    with :ref:`serialized_rollback=True <test-case-serialized-rollback>`.
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.7.1
+
+        If you are using the default test runner, you can control this with the
+        the :setting:`SERIALIZE <TEST_SERIALIZE>` entry in the
+        :setting:`TEST <DATABASE-TEST>` dictionary
 
     Returns the name of the test database that it created.