Commit b5b0febc authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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Fixed #7785 -- Added a note in the contenttypes documentation that... 

Fixed #7785 -- Added a note in the contenttypes documentation that GenericRelations must share a common field type for primary keys. Thanks to Rudolph for the suggestion and initial draft.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7976 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/contenttypes.txt

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@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ model. There are three parts to setting up a ``GenericForeignKey``: 
       models you'll be relating to. (For most models, this means an

       ``IntegerField`` or ``PositiveIntegerField``.)



   	   This field must be of the same type as the primary key of the models

   	   that will be involved in the generic relation. For example, if you use

   	   ``IntegerField``, you won't be able to form a generic relation with a

   	   model that uses a ``CharField`` as a primary key.



    3. Give your model a ``GenericForeignKey``, and pass it the names of

       the two fields described above. If these fields are named

       "content_type" and "object_id", you can omit this -- those are the