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24078	GenericIPAddressField is inconsistent with nulls	Josh Smeaton	Josh Smeaton	"IP Addresses are stored as inet on postgres, so the empty string isn't allowed. Instead, any empty strings are converted to nulls.

Oracle will then convert that null to the empty string once it's retrieved, because GenericIPAddressField.empty_strings_allowed = True. Other backends will return None.

I think the right thing to do is set empty_strings_allowed = False on GenericIPAddressField, but I'm not sure if that'll have other implications. I'll put together a patch later today."	Bug	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0