From b0799f5d86b6c0ccb1dcba6e0d2eee336f7f5928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariusz Felisiak Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:05:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed documentation of database representation for ManyToManyField. --- docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt index 1b572d8076..e352e8b007 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt @@ -1468,10 +1468,9 @@ Behind the scenes, Django creates an intermediary join table to represent the many-to-many relationship. By default, this table name is generated using the name of the many-to-many field and the name of the table for the model that contains it. Since some databases don't support table names above a certain -length, these table names will be automatically truncated to 64 characters and a -uniqueness hash will be used. This means you might see table names like -``author_books_9cdf4``; this is perfectly normal. You can manually provide the -name of the join table using the :attr:`~ManyToManyField.db_table` option. +length, these table names will be automatically truncated and a uniqueness hash +will be used, e.g. ``author_books_9cdf``. You can manually provide the name of +the join table using the :attr:`~ManyToManyField.db_table` option. .. _manytomany-arguments: