Ticket #17435: 17435.diff

docs/ref/models/querysets.txt

@@ -1564 +1564 @@
 .. method:: update(**kwargs)
 
 Performs an SQL update query for the specified fields, and returns
-the number of rows affected.
+the number of rows matched (which may not be equal to the number of rows
+updated if some rows already have the new value).
 
 For example, to turn comments off for all blog entries published in 2010,
 you could do this::

docs/topics/db/queries.txt

@@ -959 +959 @@
     >>> Entry.objects.all().update(blog=b)
 
 The ``update()`` method is applied instantly and returns the number of rows
-affected by the query. The only restriction on the
+matched by the query (which may not be equal to the number of rows updated if
+some rows already have the new value). The only restriction on the
 :class:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet` that is updated is that it can only
 access one database table, the model's main table. You can filter based on
 related fields, but you can only update columns in the model's main