Commit 0086c9eb authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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[1.7.x] Fixed #22417 -- Added additional documentation for refs #16969. 

Thanks Jon Foster for the report.

Backport of 1b3a3fc1 from master
parent bc5d568e

docs/releases/1.7.txt

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  The :attr:`~django.core.validators.RegexValidator.flags` attribute was added

  to :class:`~django.core.validators.RegexValidator` to simplify this change.



* When running tests on PostgreSQL, the :setting:`USER` will need read access

  to the built-in ``postgres`` database. This is in lieu of the previous

  behavior of connecting to the actual non-test database.



.. _deprecated-features-1.7:



Features deprecated in 1.7

docs/topics/testing/overview.txt

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:setting:`NAME <TEST_NAME>` in the :setting:`TEST <DATABASE-TEST>`

dictionary for any given database in :setting:`DATABASES`.



.. versionchanged:: 1.7



    On PostgreSQL, :setting:`USER` will also need read access to the built-in

    ``postgres`` database.



Aside from using a separate database, the test runner will otherwise

use all of the same database settings you have in your settings file:

:setting:`ENGINE <DATABASE-ENGINE>`, :setting:`USER`, :setting:`HOST`, etc. The