On 5/4/2009 8:46 AM, MS wrote: > I have a problem with django+postgresql: > I have a model with a CharField(max_length=255) field, and I'm > assigning some much longer value to this field, like: > > m = MyModel() > m.myfield = 'very long text - say 400 chars' > m.save() > > In save() I'm getting an error "ERROR: value too long for type > character varying(255)", and the SQL statement contains the 'very long > text - say 400 chars' intact. > > I thought that if django knows that a field is restricted to 255 > chars, then it will validate it and > truncate excessive chars before saving. But it doesn't. How can I get > rid of that problem?
If you want that behavior, just truncate `myfield` in `MyModel.save()` before calling the super save. <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.Model.save> -- George --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
