From 91e59aeca0d4a554c418629999d1d9e758912c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Beaven Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:33:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #10786 -- Document that NullBooleanField should be used rather than BooleanField with null=True. Thanks sbj3 for the patch. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16020 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt index fbd9fb78f8..8d61b90e1d 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ string, not ``NULL``. coerced for string-based fields that have the empty string as a possible value, and the value ``NULL`` will be stored to denote the empty string. +If you want to accept :attr:`~Field.null` values with :class:`BooleanField`, +use :class:`NullBooleanField` instead. + ``blank`` --------- @@ -341,6 +344,9 @@ A true/false field. The admin represents this as a checkbox. +If you need to accept :attr:`~Field.null` values then use +:class:`NullBooleanField` instead. + .. versionchanged:: 1.2 In previous versions of Django when running under MySQL ``BooleanFields``