Author: ikelly
Date: 2009-03-05 14:22:54 -0600 (Thu, 05 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 9977
Modified:
django/branches/releases/1.0.X/
django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/databases.txt
django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
Log:
[1.0.X] Clarified documentation regarding Oracle's treatment of nulls and empty
strings. Backport of [9976] from trunk.
Property changes on: django/branches/releases/1.0.X
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Modified: django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/databases.txt
===================================================================
--- django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/databases.txt 2009-03-05
20:21:22 UTC (rev 9976)
+++ django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/databases.txt 2009-03-05
20:22:54 UTC (rev 9977)
@@ -442,12 +442,13 @@
NULL and empty strings
----------------------
-Django generally prefers to use the empty string ('') rather than NULL, but
-Oracle treats both identically. To get around this, the Oracle backend
-coerces the ``null=True`` option on fields that permit the empty string as a
-value. When fetching from the database, it is assumed that a NULL value in
-one of these fields really means the empty string, and the data is silently
-converted to reflect this assumption.
+Django generally prefers to use the empty string ('') rather than
+NULL, but Oracle treats both identically. To get around this, the
+Oracle backend coerces the ``null=True`` option on fields that have
+the empty string as a possible value. When fetching from the database,
+it is assumed that a NULL value in one of these fields really means
+the empty string, and the data is silently converted to reflect this
+assumption.
``TextField`` limitations
-------------------------
Modified: django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
===================================================================
--- django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/models/fields.txt 2009-03-05
20:21:22 UTC (rev 9976)
+++ django/branches/releases/1.0.X/docs/ref/models/fields.txt 2009-03-05
20:22:54 UTC (rev 9977)
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
.. note::
When using the Oracle database backend, the ``null=True`` option will be
- coerced for string-based fields that can blank, and the value ``NULL`` will
- be stored to denote the empty string.
+ coerced for string-based fields that have the empty string as a possible
+ value, and the value ``NULL`` will be stored to denote the empty string.
``blank``
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