diff --git a/openerp/addons/base/base.sql b/openerp/addons/base/base.sql
index f2cb77709ed..26d70b7ede6 100644
--- a/openerp/addons/base/base.sql
+++ b/openerp/addons/base/base.sql
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ CREATE TABLE ir_module_module (
     write_date timestamp without time zone,
     write_uid integer references res_users on delete set null,
     website character varying(256),
+    summary character varying(256),
     name character varying(128) NOT NULL,
     author character varying(128),
     url character varying(128),
diff --git a/openerp/modules/db.py b/openerp/modules/db.py
index 2449efc7fcd..7490631a3b9 100644
--- a/openerp/modules/db.py
+++ b/openerp/modules/db.py
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def initialize(cr):
 
         cr.execute('INSERT INTO ir_module_module \
                 (author, website, name, shortdesc, description, \
-                    category_id, auto_install, state, certificate, web, license, application, icon, sequence) \
-                VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s) RETURNING id', (
+                    category_id, auto_install, state, certificate, web, license, application, icon, sequence, summary) \
+                VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s) RETURNING id', (
             info['author'],
             info['website'], i, info['name'],
             info['description'], category_id,
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def initialize(cr):
             info['web'],
             info['license'],
             info['application'], info['icon'],
-            info['sequence']))
+            info['sequence'], info['summary']))
         id = cr.fetchone()[0]
         cr.execute('INSERT INTO ir_model_data \
             (name,model,module, res_id, noupdate) VALUES (%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)', (
diff --git a/openerp/modules/module.py b/openerp/modules/module.py
index 265a23190e5..b1d4de31bce 100644
--- a/openerp/modules/module.py
+++ b/openerp/modules/module.py
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ def load_information_from_description_file(module):
                 'web': False,
                 'website': '',
                 'sequence': 100,
+                'summary': '',
             }
             info.update(itertools.izip(
                 'depends data demo test init_xml update_xml demo_xml'.split(),