#14094: Cannot define CharField with unlimited length
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Reporter: millerdev | Owner: ar45
Type: New feature | Status: assigned
Component: Database layer | Version: master
(models, ORM) |
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by srkunze):
Recently, I helped a friend bootstrapping a new Django project.
This issue (TextField vs CharField without max_length) again popped up
because I had trouble explaining why exactly there needs to be a limit.
Because I have some reasonable experience with Django I know about the
internal relationship between models and forms which again lead to some
questionable design decisions in the past.
My point here is there is not easy way for (new) Django users to decide
for either a CharField or a TextField.
CharField -> one line text data but limited
TextField -> multi-line text data
What most projects actually need is
CharField -> one line, unlimited text data
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