Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#28193 closed Bug
Maximum length of Column in through table is not updated in migrations — at Initial Version
Reported by: | James Hiew | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Migrations | Version: | 1.11 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | manytomanyfield, primary key, varchar, max length |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
If you have a model Foo
with a CharField
primary key, and then another model Bar
which has a ManyToManyField
relationship with Foo
, any changes to the max_length
of Foo
's primary key is not reflected in the max string length of the corresponding Bar-Foo m2m table column.
Starting with the below minimal example
`
from django.db import models
class Foo(models.Model):
code = models.CharField(max_length=15, primary_key=True, unique=True, auto_created=False, editable=False)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class Bar(models.Model):
foos = models.ManyToManyField(Foo)
`
Run ./manage.py makemigrations
then ./manage.py migrate
.
Change the max_length
of Foo.code
to a higher value e.g. 100
`
from django.db import models
class Foo(models.Model):
code = models.CharField(max_length=100, primary_key=True, unique=True, auto_created=False, editable=False)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class Bar(models.Model):
foos = models.ManyToManyField(Foo)
`
Run ./manage.py makemigrations
then ./manage.py migrate
once more.
The final myapp_bar_foos
table DDL is:
`
CREATE TABLE "myapp_bar_foos" ("id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, "bar_id" integer NOT NULL REFERENCES "myapp_bar" ("id"), "foo_id" varchar(15) NOT NULL REFERENCES "myapp_foo" ("code"));
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "myapp_bar_foos_bar_id_foo_id_6037806e_uniq" ON "myapp_bar_foos" ("bar_id", "foo_id");
CREATE INDEX "myapp_bar_foos_bar_id_f5103189" ON "myapp_bar_foos" ("bar_id");
CREATE INDEX "myapp_bar_foos_foo_id_84900b21" ON "myapp_bar_foos" ("foo_id")
`
The foo_id
column should have been updated to type varchar(100)
but it remains as varchar(15)
.
The problem is not noticeable when using SQLite (e.g. during local development), as SQLite doesn't seem to enforce the varchar length constraints, but Postgres does, so this issue is pernicious when moving to production.