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diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt index 6a26c573aa..d894057748 100644 --- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt @@ -337,17 +337,17 @@ inspectdb .. django-admin:: inspectdb -Introspects the database tables in the database pointed-to by the +Introspects the database tables and views in the database pointed-to by the :setting:`NAME` setting and outputs a Django model module (a ``models.py`` file) to standard output. Use this if you have a legacy database with which you'd like to use Django. -The script will inspect the database and create a model for each table within -it. +The script will inspect the database and create a model for each table or view +within it. As you might expect, the created models will have an attribute for every field -in the table. Note that ``inspectdb`` has a few special cases in its field-name -output: +in the table or view. Note that ``inspectdb`` has a few special cases in its +field-name output: * If ``inspectdb`` cannot map a column's type to a model field type, it'll use ``TextField`` and will insert the Python comment @@ -390,6 +390,11 @@ it because ``True`` is its default value). The :djadminopt:`--database` option may be used to specify the database to introspect. +.. versionadded:: 1.8 + + A feature to inspect database views was added. In previous versions, only + tables (not views) were inspected. + loaddata <fixture fixture ...> ------------------------------ |