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| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/CHANGELOG | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb | 7 |
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>, |