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Fixed #6541: Corrected documentation of how the admin chooses a defau…
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…lt manager. Refs #6538.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7302 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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ubernostrum committed Mar 18, 2008
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This example allows you to request ``Person.men.all()``, ``Person.women.all()``, This example allows you to request ``Person.men.all()``, ``Person.women.all()``,
and ``Person.people.all()``, yielding predictable results. and ``Person.people.all()``, yielding predictable results.


If you use custom ``Manager`` objects, take note that the first ``Manager`` If you use custom ``Manager`` objects, take note that the first
Django encounters (in order by which they're defined in the model) has a ``Manager`` Django encounters (in the order in which they're defined
special status. Django interprets the first ``Manager`` defined in a class as in the model) has a special status. Django interprets this first
the "default" ``Manager``. Certain operations -- such as Django's admin site -- ``Manager`` defined in a class as the "default" ``Manager``, and
use the default ``Manager`` to obtain lists of objects, so it's generally a several parts of Django (though not the admin application) will use
good idea for the first ``Manager`` to be relatively unfiltered. In the last that ``Manager`` exclusively for that model. As a result, it's often a
example, the ``people`` ``Manager`` is defined first -- so it's the default good idea to be careful in your choice of default manager, in order to
``Manager``. avoid a situation where overriding of ``get_query_set()`` results in
an inability to retrieve objects you'd like to work with.


Model methods Model methods
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