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	[5.2.x] Fixed #35877, Refs #36128 -- Documented unique constraint when migrating a m2m field to use a through model.
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			| @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ model, the default migration will delete the existing table and create a new | ||||
| one, losing the existing relations. To avoid this, you can use | ||||
| :class:`.SeparateDatabaseAndState` to rename the existing table to the new | ||||
| table name while telling the migration autodetector that the new model has | ||||
| been created. You can check the existing table name through | ||||
| been created. You can check the existing table name and constraint name through | ||||
| :djadmin:`sqlmigrate` or :djadmin:`dbshell`. You can check the new table name | ||||
| with the through model's ``_meta.db_table`` property. Your new ``through`` | ||||
| model should use the same names for the ``ForeignKey``\s as Django did. Also if | ||||
| @@ -392,6 +392,14 @@ For example, if we had a ``Book`` model with a ``ManyToManyField`` linking to | ||||
|                                 ), | ||||
|                             ), | ||||
|                         ], | ||||
|                         options={ | ||||
|                             "constraints": [ | ||||
|                                 models.UniqueConstraint( | ||||
|                                     fields=["author", "book"], | ||||
|                                     name="unique_author_book", | ||||
|                                 ) | ||||
|                             ], | ||||
|                         }, | ||||
|                     ), | ||||
|                     migrations.AlterField( | ||||
|                         model_name="book", | ||||
|   | ||||
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