From f4547bfbfddfc3145591debf5ab19c5c0abbfa33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:51:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added clarification to [594] git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@595 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/faq.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 69991d4954..10a98630eb 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -276,6 +276,11 @@ If you don't care about clearing data, just do this:: 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 +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. + 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, because dealing with data is a very sensitive operation that we've wanted to