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
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