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14820	Use `TextField` instead of `PositiveIntegerField` in docs and examples for generic relations.	Tai Lee	Gabriel Hurley	"The docs state that the `object_id` field on a generic model that is linked back to with `GenericForeignKey` fields must be the same type, usually `PositiveIntegerField`. This is not entirely true since [12353] which coerces the primary key value to the same type as the `object_id` field on the generic model.

This means that `TextField` should be the preferred type for `object_id` fields on generic models, because it will allow models with integer and non-integer (anything that can be coerced to a string) to link back to the generic model in question.

Django actually uses `TextField` (I presume, for this reason) for its own internal generic models (`LogEntry` and `BaseCommentAbstractModel`), so it makes sense that we should tell users how to avoid this old limitation and set a best practice by example.
"		closed	Documentation	dev		fixed	generic relation genericforeignkey object_id type textfield sprintdec2010		Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0