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| author | Joseph Kocherhans <joseph@jkocherhans.com> | 2010-02-24 17:36:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Kocherhans <joseph@jkocherhans.com> | 2010-02-24 17:36:18 +0000 |
| commit | 16fe73d918c8a35f7122aed858312bd3163ac454 (patch) | |
| tree | 06c8c09da94ae39e91735feb581139a2c242a138 /docs/ref/databases.txt | |
| parent | 9f4bf525f887db32b7260909a0140d68910aa042 (diff) | |
Fixed #7190. Boolean fields now return bool values instead of 1 or 0. Thanks, Alex Gaynor.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12578 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/databases.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index afead83d4d..3a7c3eaaca 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -326,12 +326,11 @@ Notes on specific fields Boolean fields ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Since MySQL doesn't have a direct ``BOOLEAN`` column type, Django uses a -``TINYINT`` column with values of ``1`` and ``0`` to store values for the -:class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField` model field. Refer to the documentation -of that field for more details, but usually this won't be something that will -matter unless you're printing out the field values and are expecting to see -``True`` and ``False.``. +.. versionchanged:: 1.2 + +In previous versions of Django when running under MySQL ``BooleanFields`` would +return their data as ``ints``, instead of true ``bools``. See the release +notes for a complete description of the change. Character fields ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |