I agree that *_alter_field *should be refactored, because currently is unmaintainable or at least really hard to maintain. I checked and some of the official 3rd-party database backends [1] use this private API i.e. django-mssql [2], django-firebird [3]. Maybe we should take that into account.
[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/databases/#using-a-3rd-party-database-backend [2]: https://bitbucket.org/Manfre/django-mssql/src/d44721ba17acf95da89f06bd7270dabc1cd33deb/sqlserver_ado/schema.py?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#schema.py-152 [3]: https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird/blob/master/firebird/schema.py#L112 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/501dd0f8-caf1-4aae-b56f-00a46768d41c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
