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Fixed #12837 -- Clarified the naming strategy for m2m intermediate ta…
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…bles. Thanks to Ramiro Morales for the report and patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12516 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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freakboy3742 committed Feb 23, 2010
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A 64 bit integer, much like an :class:`IntegerField` except that it is
guaranteed to fit numbers from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. The
admin represents this as an ``<input type="text">`` (a single-line input).


``BooleanField``
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If ``True`` (the default), the URL given will be checked for existence
(i.e., the URL actually loads and doesn't give a 404 response).

Note that when you're using the single-threaded development server,
validating a URL being served by the same server will hang. This should not
be a problem for multithreaded servers.
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Database Representation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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
names of the two tables being joined. 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.
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 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.

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