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| author | Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com> | 2013-10-21 18:12:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com> | 2013-10-23 15:04:14 +0300 |
| commit | cc0dcfc64405419d95e87c8dcc612bd441a8d6de (patch) | |
| tree | fb324e8a8e53848a666bcb3ad6d54c699b892e50 /docs/ref/models | |
| parent | 6e413928387a3665a6504339c1c9c464ebff7645 (diff) | |
Fixed #13245: Explained Oracle's behavior w.r.t db_table
and how to prevent table-name truncation
Thanks russellm & timo for discussion, and timo for review.
Backported from master 317040a73b77be8f8210801793b2ce6d1a69301e
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref/models')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/options.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/options.txt b/docs/ref/models/options.txt index c2a3430c2b..e2a502cf25 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/options.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/options.txt @@ -67,6 +67,18 @@ Django quotes column and table names behind the scenes. the table name via ``db_table``, particularly if you are using the MySQL backend. See the :ref:`MySQL notes <mysql-notes>` for more details. +.. admonition:: Table name quoting for Oracle + + In order to to meet the 30-char limitation Oracle has on table names, + and match the usual conventions for Oracle databases, Django may shorten + table names and turn them all-uppercase. To prevent such transformations, + use a quoted name as the value for ``db_table``:: + + db_table = '"name_left_in_lowercase"' + + Such quoted names can also be used with Django's other supported database + backends; except for Oracle, however, the quotes have no effect. See the + :ref:`Oracle notes <oracle-notes>` for more details. ``db_tablespace`` ----------------- |