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| author | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2011-11-20 10:31:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2011-11-20 10:31:22 +0000 |
| commit | 1240c8332db9ac68be0c9b0d17c8cc8b3a68cc01 (patch) | |
| tree | 70c8e9e5df92ec880ee09461026ebe090d5219f2 /docs | |
| parent | 7075e932565d3a28d53ff014f0e33ce46df53496 (diff) | |
Fixed #17267 -- Clarified the description of MyISAM's lack of support for foreign keys.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17120 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/databases.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index ae47667628..b914a68945 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -135,9 +135,10 @@ Storage engines MySQL has several `storage engines`_ (previously called table types). You can change the default storage engine in the server configuration. -The default engine is MyISAM_ [#]_. The main drawback of MyISAM is that it -doesn't currently support transactions or foreign keys. On the plus side, it's -currently the only engine that supports full-text indexing and searching. +The default engine is MyISAM_ [#]_. The main drawbacks of MyISAM are that it +doesn't currently support transactions or enforce foreign keys constraints. On +the plus side, it's currently the only engine that supports full-text indexing +and searching. The InnoDB_ engine is fully transactional and supports foreign key references and is probably the best choice at this point in time. |