#8162: Increase Permission.name max_length
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Reporter: juliae | Owner: wilsoniya
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: contrib.auth | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: schemamigration | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by russellm):
@tomek … and yet, in all the time that this critical, mind-numbingly
catastrophic bug has been in existence, Django has managed to grow in
popularity, and I'm having difficulty recalling the last time the topic
was raised on a mailing list for discussion.
There's a very good reason that this has bug has been unresolved for so
long - in the grand scheme of things, it isn't a huge problem. Yes, this
is a bug. However, it's a bug that only manifests if you have very long
table names and/or permission names, and even then, it the problem should
be revealed by a fairly cursory testing regimen. There is a known
workaround if you have this problem in practice - manually update the
table. And we have a proposed fix - we are just waiting on the
introduction of migrations. Contrast this with the wide range of known
problems that don't have workarounds, or manifest in common, subtle, or
untestable ways, or the feature improvements that have been used by *many*
more people than have been affected by this issue.
Now that we have migrations, we can look at implementing a formal fix for
this, and the other handful of schema-size related issues (e.g., the
length of the email field in the default User model). If this really is a
problem that you can't bear to look at, now would be a good time to look
at contributing a fix.
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