Commit ceb8fc56 authored by James Bennett's avatar James Bennett
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Fixed #6915: Documented the fact that QuerySet.delete() may not call delete()...

Fixed #6915: Documented the fact that QuerySet.delete() may not call delete() methods of individual objects


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8406 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -2229,6 +2229,15 @@ For example, this deletes all ``Entry`` objects with a ``pub_date`` year of

    Entry.objects.filter(pub_date__year=2005).delete()

Keep in mind that this will, whenever possible, be executed purely in
SQL, and so the ``delete()`` methods of individual object instances
will not necessarily be called during the process. If you've provided
a custom ``delete()`` method on a model class and want to ensure that
it is called, you will need to "manually" delete instances of that
model (e.g., by iterating over a ``QuerySet`` and calling ``delete()``
on each object individually) rather than using the bulk ``delete()``
method of a ``QuerySet``.

When Django deletes an object, it emulates the behavior of the SQL
constraint ``ON DELETE CASCADE`` -- in other words, any objects which
had foreign keys pointing at the object to be deleted will be deleted