Commit 75d7bb8d authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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[1.6.x] Fixed #5726 -- Documented that inspectdb doesn't detect defaults.

Backport of 15cafaa5 from master
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``inspectdb`` works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. Foreign-key detection
only works in PostgreSQL and with certain types of MySQL tables.

Django doesn't create database defaults when a
:attr:`~django.db.models.Field.default` is specified on a model field.
Similarly, database defaults aren't translated to model field defaults or
detected in any fashion by ``inspectdb``.

By default, ``inspectdb`` creates unmanaged models. That is, ``managed = False``
in the model's ``Meta`` class tells Django not to manage each table's creation
and deletion. If you do want to allow Django to manage the table's lifecycle,