I have a field that has a max_length set. When I save a model instance, and the field's value is > than max_length, Django enforces that max_length at the database level. (See Django docs on models: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.CharField.max_length)
However, since I am using Postgres, I receive a DatabaseError exception like this: DatabaseError: value too long for type character varying(1000) I would prefer to instead auto-truncate the value (so I don't have an exception). Now, I can do this manually, but what I would really want is to have all of my models auto-truncate the value. (Not necessarily intelligently. Just cutting it off at the 999th character is fine.) Should I just write a custom class that imports from models.Model and override the save() method, looping through each _meta.field, checking for the max_length, and then truncating? That seems inelegant and there must be a better way. Thanks, Sam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.