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| author | Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com> | 2019-02-25 20:05:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com> | 2019-02-25 20:08:11 +0100 |
| commit | 62f28f37bff299c533a614446fb2a4a58199f2a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 386c4faee7f10023e32c347030cd106b4f535dee | |
| parent | 370a145996ca4749abaa528079a672fd10b9632e (diff) | |
[2.2.x] Fixed documentation of database representation for ManyToManyField.
Backport of b0799f5d86b6c0ccb1dcba6e0d2eee336f7f5928 from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt index 2d95233351..486247d80e 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt @@ -1478,10 +1478,9 @@ Behind the scenes, Django creates an intermediary join table to represent the many-to-many relationship. By default, this table name is generated using the name of the many-to-many field and the name of the table for the model that contains it. Since some databases don't support table names above a certain -length, these table names will be automatically truncated to 64 characters and a -uniqueness hash will be used. This means you might see table names like -``author_books_9cdf4``; this is perfectly normal. You can manually provide the -name of the join table using the :attr:`~ManyToManyField.db_table` option. +length, these table names will be automatically truncated and a uniqueness hash +will be used, e.g. ``author_books_9cdf``. You can manually provide the name of +the join table using the :attr:`~ManyToManyField.db_table` option. .. _manytomany-arguments: |
