id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
29251	MySQL backend returns bytes instead of strings in some queries involving database functions	Mariusz Felisiak	Mariusz Felisiak	"PR [https://github.com/django/django/pull/9808 9808] revealed a bug in the MySQL backend.  `mysqlclient` returns `bytes` instead of `strings` in some edge cases, e.g.:

`LPad('name', Length('alias'))`
`Replace('name', Length('alias'))`"	Bug	assigned	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal		mysql bytes		Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0