From 9ca22c7733efeeb140b75585c6387ef2cb861d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Caio Ariede Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:45:04 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #26962 -- Doc'd running migrations in transactions. --- docs/topics/migrations.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/topics/migrations.txt b/docs/topics/migrations.txt index b0d75a4f09..708040826f 100644 --- a/docs/topics/migrations.txt +++ b/docs/topics/migrations.txt @@ -169,6 +169,27 @@ migrations for you. If not, you'll have to go in and modify the migrations yourself - don't worry, this isn't difficult, and is explained more in :ref:`migration-files` below. +Transactions +============ + +On databases that support DDL transactions (SQLite and PostgreSQL), all +migration operations will run inside a single transaction by default. In +contrast, if a database doesn't support DDL transactions (e.g. MySQL, Oracle) +then all operations will run without a transaction. + +You can prevent a migration from running in a transaction by setting the +``atomic`` attribute to ``False``. For example:: + + from django.db import migrations + + class Migration(migrations.Migration): + atomic = False + +It's also possible to execute parts of the migration inside a transaction using +:func:`~django.db.transaction.atomic()` or by passing ``atomic=True`` to +:class:`~django.db.migrations.operations.RunPython`. See +:ref:`non-atomic-migrations` for more details. + Dependencies ============