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diff --git a/docs/db-api.txt b/docs/db-api.txt index b014a70b1e..ca7d47f8fa 100644 --- a/docs/db-api.txt +++ b/docs/db-api.txt @@ -1327,6 +1327,19 @@ changed in the development version. Previously, it was (intentionally) converted to ``WHERE id = NULL`` at the SQL level, which would never match anything. It has now been changed to behave the same as ``id__isnull=True``. +.. admonition:: MySQL comparisons + + In MySQL, whether or not ``exact`` comparisons are case-sensitive depends + upon the collation setting of the table involved. The default is usually + ``latin1_swedish_ci`` or ``utf8_swedish_ci``, which results in + case-insensitive comparisons. Change the collation to + ``latin1_swedish_cs`` or ``utf8_bin`` for case sensitive comparisons. + + For more details, refer to the MySQL manual section about `character sets + and collations`_. + +.. _character sets and collations: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html + iexact ~~~~~~ |