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diff --git a/docs/settings.txt b/docs/settings.txt index 46fdd70258..e40374a822 100644 --- a/docs/settings.txt +++ b/docs/settings.txt @@ -257,10 +257,11 @@ The database backend to use. The build-in database backends are ``'postgresql_psycopg2'``, ``'postgresql'``, ``'mysql'``, ``'mysql_old'``, ``'sqlite3'``, ``'oracle'``, or ``'ado_mssql'``. -You can also use a database backend that doesn't ship with Django by -setting ``DATABASE_ENGINE`` to a fully-qualified path (i.e. +In the Django development version, you can use a database backend that doesn't +ship with Django by setting ``DATABASE_ENGINE`` to a fully-qualified path (i.e. ``mypackage.backends.whatever``). Writing a whole new database backend from -scratch is left as an exercise to the reader. +scratch is left as an exercise to the reader; see the other backends for +examples. DATABASE_HOST ------------- |