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-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst6
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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 14a3bfb9b..baea85b83 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- MySQLi driver now supports persistent connections when running on PHP >= 5.3.
- Added dsn if the group connections in the config use PDO or any driver which need DSN.
- Improved PDO database support.
+ - An optional database name parameter was added db_select().
- Libraries
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0
- Fixed a possible bug in ``CI_Input::is_ajax_request()`` where some clients might not send the X-Requested-With HTTP header value exactly as 'XmlHttpRequest'.
- Fixed a bug (#1039) - MySQL's _backup() method failed due to a table name not being escaped.
- Fixed a bug (#1070) - CI_DB_driver::initialize() didn't set a character set if a database is not selected.
+- Fixed a bug (#177) - CI_Form_validation::set_value() didn't set the default value if POST data is NULL.
- Fixed a bug (#128) - :doc:`Language Library <libraries/language>` did not correctly keep track of loaded language files.
Version 2.1.0
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
index a834cc0f7..fb4524116 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/connecting.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ return the database object.
| $DB1->result();
| etc...
+.. note:: You don't need to create separate database configurations if you
+ only need to use a different database on the same connection. You
+ can switch to a different database when you need to, like this:
+
+ | $this->db->db_select($database2_name);
+
Reconnecting / Keeping the Connection Alive
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