Fixed #399: Added big integer field. Thanks to Tomáš Kopeček for persistently maintaining a patch for this.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11887 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
index 0cb5be4b92..cd8cdc7a01 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
@@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ according to available IDs. You usually won't need to use this directly; a
 primary key field will automatically be added to your model if you don't specify
 otherwise. See :ref:`automatic-primary-key-fields`.
 
+``BigIntegerField``
+-------------------
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.2
+
+.. class:: BigIntegerField([**options])
+
+A 64 bit integer, much like an :class:`IntegerField` except that it is
+guaranteed to fit numbers from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. The
+admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input).
+ 
+
 ``BooleanField``
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index c5aa9c8a77..024479508a 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ the full list of conversions:
     ===============================  ========================================
     ``AutoField``                    Not represented in the form
 
+    ``BigIntegerField``              ``IntegerField`` with ``min_value`` set
+                                     to -9223372036854775808 and ``max_value``
+                                     set to 9223372036854775807.
+
     ``BooleanField``                 ``BooleanField``
 
     ``CharField``                    ``CharField`` with ``max_length`` set to
@@ -108,6 +112,10 @@ the full list of conversions:
     The ``FloatField`` form field and ``DecimalField`` model and form fields
     are new in Django 1.0.
 
+.. versionadded:: 1.2
+    The ``BigIntegerField`` is new in Django 1.2.
+
+
 As you might expect, the ``ForeignKey`` and ``ManyToManyField`` model field
 types are special cases: