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		orf on May 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common mistakes in PostgreSQL I’m pretty sure Django doesn’t actually create a limited char field that way, it merely adds validation. For exactly this reason.

rrauenza on May 3, 2019 [–]

It does pass the limit down. I've just verified my schema that has a varchar(128).

One of the reasons given in the bug for it being difficult to fix is down in the depths it assumes it is a varchar() -- with parentheses.

Here's the relevant comment:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14094#comment:13

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