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authorMarcel Molina <marcel@vernix.org>2007-12-05 20:20:37 +0000
committerMarcel Molina <marcel@vernix.org>2007-12-05 20:20:37 +0000
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Reveal that the type option in migrations can be any supported column type for your database but also include caveat about agnosticism. Closes #7531 [adamwiggins, mikong]
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@8304 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
-rw-r--r--activerecord/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 5c5b15e33a..d7277a39ec 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Reveal that the type option in migrations can be any supported column type for your database but also include caveat about agnosticism. Closes #7531 [adamwiggins, mikong]
+
* More complete documentation for find_by_sql. Closes #7912 [fearoffish]
* Document API for exists?'s parameter and provide examples of usage. Closes #7913 [fearoffish]
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
index 86ff16531f..2aa8a12228 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
@@ -292,12 +292,17 @@ module ActiveRecord
end
# Instantiates a new column for the table.
- # The +type+ parameter must be one of the following values:
+ # The +type+ parameter is normally one of the migrations native types,
+ # which is one of the following:
# <tt>:primary_key</tt>, <tt>:string</tt>, <tt>:text</tt>,
# <tt>:integer</tt>, <tt>:float</tt>, <tt>:decimal</tt>,
# <tt>:datetime</tt>, <tt>:timestamp</tt>, <tt>:time</tt>,
# <tt>:date</tt>, <tt>:binary</tt>, <tt>:boolean</tt>.
#
+ # You may use a type not in this list as long as it is supported by your
+ # database (for example, "polygon" in MySQL), but this will not be database
+ # agnostic and should usually be avoided.
+ #
# Available options are (none of these exists by default):
# * <tt>:limit</tt> -
# Requests a maximum column length (<tt>:string</tt>, <tt>:text</tt>,