From 3c2c74f58f9261feaa5ad9dfb596213a654c2e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Chainz <adam@adamj.eu>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:07:09 +0100
Subject: [1.8.x] Fixed #25377 -- Changed Count queries to execute COUNT(*)
 instead of COUNT('*').

Backport of 3fe3887a2ed94f7b15be769f6d81571031ec5627 from master
---
 docs/releases/1.8.5.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
index 917599447f..1141c2c798 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.5.txt
@@ -32,3 +32,7 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Fixed migrations crash on MySQL when adding a text or a blob field with an
   unhashable default (:ticket:`25393`).
+
+* Changed ``Count`` queries to execute ``COUNT(*)`` instead of ``COUNT('*')``
+  as versions of Django before 1.8 did (:ticket:`25377`). This may fix a
+  performance regression on some databases.
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