contrib.auth.User email field length is insufficient for Facebook proxy email addresses

[alun@…]

As of Django 1.2, the max length of the email field on the User model is 75 characters. This is not sufficient to accomodate the random anonymized proxy email addresses generated by Facebook, which are usually well over 75 characters long: e.g. "apps+71659511993.252800001.671353761e563e7852e650c93c3b821c@…".

This poses a problem for integrating with 3rd-party authentication systems; as do other User charfield limits like those on the username, first_name and last_name fields (which are each limited to 30 characters.) In the case of Django's builtin models, whose schemas are awkward to override, I can't see any advantage in being parsimonious with charfield sizes.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Duplicate of #12900, #11579, #11365, and many others.

The advantage is backwards compatibility. Every single Django site in existence that uses contrib.auth has a synchronized database with an email field of length 75 characters. Yes, this length is too short for some uses. But we don't currently have a way to ship migrations and ensure that they are applied.

The likely fix for this is #3011 -- making the user module user-definable. It isn't as simple as "just increase the max_length".

[anonymous]

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