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commit 1e53b255d3da3e65a190b72aae5616c74f337735 Author: Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Tue Dec 1 09:59:21 2020 +0100 Clarified information about supported Databases. Cherry-picked the new description from master, following complaints that documentation suggests we support other databases. See issue #9717 --- docs/howto/initialize-database.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst b/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst index e0429d9..16d2cbb 100644 --- a/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst +++ b/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Initializing a Database Backend If you want to take a real test drive of Airflow, you should consider setting up a real database backend and switching to the LocalExecutor. -As Airflow was built to interact with its metadata using the great SqlAlchemy -library, you should be able to use any database backend supported as a -SqlAlchemy backend. We recommend using **MySQL** or **Postgres**. +Airflow was built to interact with its metadata using SqlAlchemy +with **MySQL**, **Postgres** and **SQLite** as supported backends +(SQLite is used primarily for development purpose) .. note:: We rely on more strict ANSI SQL settings for MySQL in order to have sane defaults. Make sure to have specified ``explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1``
