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-rw-r--r--doc/man/bcfg2.conf.txt5
-rw-r--r--doc/releases/1.3.6.txt7
-rw-r--r--doc/server/database.txt4
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/bcfg2.conf.txt b/doc/man/bcfg2.conf.txt
index 6faf48a1a..f55540968 100644
--- a/doc/man/bcfg2.conf.txt
+++ b/doc/man/bcfg2.conf.txt
@@ -736,9 +736,8 @@ control the database connection of the server.
Port for database connections. Not used for sqlite3.
options
- Various options for the database connection. The value is
- expected as multiple key=value pairs, separated with commas.
- The concrete value depends on the database engine.
+ Various options for the database connection. The value expected
+ is the literal value of the django OPTIONS setting.
Reporting options
-----------------
diff --git a/doc/releases/1.3.6.txt b/doc/releases/1.3.6.txt
index e27b102bf..757fbf6f5 100644
--- a/doc/releases/1.3.6.txt
+++ b/doc/releases/1.3.6.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ This is primarily a bugfix release.
* Reporting: better exception handling
* Various interrupt handling fixes
* Fix client decision whitelist/blacklist handling
+* Fix database OPTIONS parsing
+
+ This change requires you to set the *options* value of the
+ ``[database`` section in ``bcfg2.conf`` to the literal value which is
+ passed through to the django OPTIONS setting.
+
+ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/#std:setting-OPTIONS
Special thanks to the following contributors for this release: Michael
Fenn, Matt Kemp, Alexander Sulfrian, Jonathan Billings.
diff --git a/doc/server/database.txt b/doc/server/database.txt
index 3c8970f68..15c66754f 100644
--- a/doc/server/database.txt
+++ b/doc/server/database.txt
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ of ``/etc/bcfg2.conf``.
+-------------+------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| options | Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. | None |
| | Available parameters vary depending on your database | |
-| | backend. The parameters are supplied as comma separated | |
-| | key=value pairs. | |
+| | backend. The parameters are supplied as the value of the | |
+| | django OPTIONS setting. | |
+-------------+------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+