On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> wrote: > > > I'd solve the "need to specify" issue by setting a default that is > > intentionally smaller than the smallest (core) backend limitation, say > 128. > > I'd be OK with that. Not wild, because I think that having to specify > max_length is good discipline, but not everyone likes oatmeal, either. :) > OK, this satisfies me too. > > > I"d make an "unlimited length text field" a new type of field, > explicitly not > > supported on MySql and Oracle; and I'd suggest that it can live outside > core > > for a while. so we may get an impression of how popular it really is. > > We kind of have that: TextField. The problem is that TextField has very > different performance characteristics and implementation details on > PostgreSQL vs MySQL and Oracle. I don't think we need another: If you know > you are running on PostgreSQL, you just use TextField, and if you are > either targeting a different database, or writing one that runs on multiple > ones, you probably want CharField with a specific length. > While this makes sense, the use of TextField is also for the purpose of having rendered a text widget for ModelForms. So we should allow a max_length of None for both. > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > x...@thebuild.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3542EAF7-C2EB-4A4B-94F4-8C7A9EC4AC4E%40thebuild.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Aron Podrigal - '1000001', '1110010', '1101111', '1101110' '1010000', '1101111', '1100100', '1110010', '1101001', '1100111', '1100001', '1101100' P: '2b', '31', '33', '34', '37', '34', '35', '38', '36', '30', '39', '39' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CANJp-yj28u18uT8b0V5DunyfyC2fe5m1ftnTLrfEo8nE3U1UVg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
