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@@ -2021,7 +2021,8 @@ may be generated.
XOR (``^``)
~~~~~~~~~~~
-Combines two ``QuerySet``\s using the SQL ``XOR`` operator.
+Combines two ``QuerySet``\s using the SQL ``XOR`` operator. A ``XOR``
+expression matches rows that are matched by an odd number of operands.
The following are equivalent::
@@ -2044,13 +2045,21 @@ SQL equivalent:
.. code-block:: sql
(x OR y OR ... OR z) AND
- 1=(
+ 1=MOD(
(CASE WHEN x THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
(CASE WHEN y THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
...
- (CASE WHEN z THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) +
+ (CASE WHEN z THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),
+ 2
)
+ .. versionchanged:: 5.0
+
+ In older versions, on databases without native support for the SQL
+ ``XOR`` operator, ``XOR`` returned rows that were matched by exactly
+ one operand. The previous behavior was not consistent with MySQL,
+ MariaDB, and Python behavior.
+
Methods that do not return ``QuerySet``\s
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