From 15cafaa5657bae31df6e515b425dd353b7352aa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:14:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #5726 -- Documented that inspectdb doesn't detect defaults. --- docs/ref/django-admin.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt index 5188c10dde..10897f2104 100644 --- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt @@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ needed. ``inspectdb`` works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. Foreign-key detection only works in PostgreSQL and with certain types of MySQL tables. +Django doesn't create database defaults when a +:attr:`~django.db.models.Field.default` is specified on a model field. +Similarly, database defaults aren't translated to model field defaults or +detected in any fashion by ``inspectdb``. + By default, ``inspectdb`` creates unmanaged models. That is, ``managed = False`` in the model's ``Meta`` class tells Django not to manage each table's creation, modification, and deletion. If you do want to allow Django to manage the