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Merge pull request #926 from catalanojuan/adds-dates-containing-zeros-note-to-docs 

Added warn note to docs about MySQL issues with 0000-00-00 date strings
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Preston Holmes 2013-03-18 17:09:49 -07:00
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@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ required for full MySQL support in Django.
1.2.1p2 or newer, then delete the ``sets.py`` file in the MySQLdb
directory that was left by an earlier version.
.. note::
There are known issues with the way MySQLdb converts date strings into
datetime objects. Specifically, date strings with value 0000-00-00 are valid for
MySQL but will be converted into None by MySQLdb.
This means you should be careful while using loaddata/dumpdata with rows
that may have 0000-00-00 values, as they will be converted to None.
.. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
Creating your database