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authorRodrigo <matematica.a3k@gmail.com>2018-12-03 21:37:28 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2018-12-06 16:45:39 -0500
commit4c506730b5a8dae2ab9a16712db2f39c21d4385a (patch)
treebade2158008287773c498d4c26b199e25d0d40c5
parent389ef05b1b74dcebcaf5b6885a9ff00ceccdb737 (diff)
[2.1.x] Fixed #29895 -- Doc'd why MySQL's atomic DDL statements don't work for atomic migrations.
Backport of ad191d9e011f37d79a7f2df3da881b06539aaaea from master.
-rw-r--r--docs/howto/writing-migrations.txt5
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diff --git a/docs/howto/writing-migrations.txt b/docs/howto/writing-migrations.txt
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+++ b/docs/howto/writing-migrations.txt
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ smaller batches::
]
The ``atomic`` attribute doesn't have an effect on databases that don't support
-DDL transactions (e.g. MySQL, Oracle).
+DDL transactions (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). (MySQL's `atomic DDL statement support
+<https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/atomic-ddl.html>`_ refers to individual
+statements rather than multiple statements wrapped in a transaction that can be
+rolled back.)
Controlling the order of migrations
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