Removed datetime_cast_sql, which is never overridden or used anywhere in Django.

Thanks Tim Graham for review.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index 2716932d7b..600c88ca2c 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ Database backend API
   SQLite backend to add time lookups (hour, minute, second) to
   :class:`~django.db.models.TimeField`, and may be needed by third-party
   database backends.
+  
+* The ``DatabaseOperations.datetime_cast_sql()`` method (not to be confused
+  with ``DatabaseOperations.datetime_cast_date_sql()`` mentioned above)
+  has been removed. This method served to format dates on Oracle long
+  before 1.0, but hasn't been overridden by any core backend in years
+  and hasn't been called anywhere in Django's code or tests.
 
 Default settings that were tuples are now lists
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~