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@@ -76,14 +76,12 @@ automatically create database tables for your models, you'll need to
ensure that Django has permission to create and alter tables in the
database you're using; if you plan to manually create the tables, you
can simply grant Django ``SELECT``, ``INSERT``, ``UPDATE`` and
-``DELETE`` permissions. On some databases, Django will need to have
-``ALTER TABLE`` privileges during ``syncdb`` (in order to create
-foreign key constraints properly on databases which do not allow them
-to be deferred), but will not issue ``ALTER TABLE`` statements on a
-table once ``syncdb`` has finished setting it up.
+``DELETE`` permissions. On some databases, Django will need
+``ALTER TABLE`` privileges during ``syncdb`` but won't issue
+``ALTER TABLE`` statements on a table once ``syncdb`` has created it.
-If you will be using Django's `testing framework`_ with data fixtures,
-Django will need permission to create a temporary test database.
+If you're using Django's `testing framework`_ to test database queries,
+Django will need permission to create a test database.
.. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/
.. _MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/