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Posted to commits@airflow.apache.org by po...@apache.org on 2020/12/01 09:01:45 UTC

[airflow] branch v1-10-test updated: Clarified information about supported Databases.

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potiuk pushed a commit to branch v1-10-test
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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/v1-10-test by this push:
     new 42bd1ae  Clarified information about supported Databases.
42bd1ae is described below

commit 42bd1ae0aae6c5a51427e3218b59317d0f43fdc1
Author: Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 1 09:59:21 2020 +0100

    Clarified information about supported Databases.
    
    Cherry-picked the new description from master, following
    complaints that documentation suggests we support other
    databases.
    
    See issue #9717
---
 docs/howto/initialize-database.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst b/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst
index e0429d9..16d2cbb 100644
--- a/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst
+++ b/docs/howto/initialize-database.rst
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Initializing a Database Backend
 If you want to take a real test drive of Airflow, you should consider
 setting up a real database backend and switching to the LocalExecutor.
 
-As Airflow was built to interact with its metadata using the great SqlAlchemy
-library, you should be able to use any database backend supported as a
-SqlAlchemy backend. We recommend using **MySQL** or **Postgres**.
+Airflow was built to interact with its metadata using SqlAlchemy
+with **MySQL**,  **Postgres** and **SQLite** as supported backends
+(SQLite is used primarily for development purpose)
 
 .. note:: We rely on more strict ANSI SQL settings for MySQL in order to have
    sane defaults. Make sure to have specified ``explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1``