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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/internals/deprecation.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.2.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt index a56b522278..2bfa54fb93 100644 --- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt +++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ their deprecation, as per the :ref:`Django deprecation policy ``django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth``. This has been deprecated since the 1.2 release. + * The ``postgresql`` database backend has been deprecated in favor of + the ``postgresql_psycopg2`` backend. + * 2.0 * ``django.views.defaults.shortcut()``. This function has been moved to ``django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut()`` as part of the diff --git a/docs/releases/1.2.txt b/docs/releases/1.2.txt index 7dccffaa89..b952ec1f6c 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.2.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.2.txt @@ -305,6 +305,18 @@ created using ``decorator_from_middleware``. Features deprecated in 1.2 ========================== +``postgresql`` database backend +------------------------------- + +The ``psycopg1`` library has not been updated since October 2005. As a +result, the ``postgresql`` database backend, which depends on this +library, has been deprecated. + +If you are currently using the ``postgresql`` backend, you should +migrate to using the ``postgresql_psycopg2`` backend. To update your +code, install the ``psycopg2`` library and change the +``DATABASE_ENGINE`` setting to read ``postgresql_psycopg2``. + CSRF response-rewriting middleware ---------------------------------- |