From cc56d65c6e0de167101ae0de4416c3e3e92bbef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Tredinnick Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:37:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #2166 - Use "manage.py dbshell" as the portable way to pipe commands to the database. Thanks Paolo. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3132 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/faq.txt | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 0749fb15b7..03cf05ef2f 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -406,18 +406,16 @@ If I make changes to a model, how do I update the database? ----------------------------------------------------------- If you don't mind clearing data, just pipe the output of the appropriate -``django-admin.py sqlreset`` command into your database's command-line utility. +``manage.py sqlreset`` command into your database's command-line utility. For example:: - django-admin.py sqlreset appname | psql dbname + manage.py sqlreset appname | manage.py dbshell -That "psql" assumes you're using PostgreSQL. If you're using MySQL, use the -appropriate command-line utility, ``mysql``. - -``django-admin.py sqlreset`` outputs SQL that clears the app's database +``manage.py sqlreset`` outputs SQL that clears the app's database table(s) and creates new ones. The above command uses a Unix pipe to send the -SQL directly to the PostgreSQL command-line utility, which accepts SQL as -input. +SQL directly to the database command-line utility, which accepts SQL as +input (``manage.py dbshell`` will launch the appropriate tool for the database +configured in ``settings.py``). If you do care about deleting data, you'll have to execute the ``ALTER TABLE`` statements manually in your database. That's the way we've always done it,