Oracle representation of the IPAddressField

[benk]

The IPAddressField is defined in creation.py as CHAR(15). To my understanding this means that all values in that column will be allocated enough memory to store 15 characters of data regardless if the string being stored is in fact 15 characters long.

I have discovered that for an IP address such as 192.168.1.210 where there are only 13 characters, the data base will pad out my IP address with space characters so that it becomes '192.168.1.210 '. This causes problems when performing searches unless I use 'istartswith'.

[Chris Beaven]

Should more than likely be VARCHAR then. Can someone investigate and report back to this ticket?

[benk]

There may be database optimizations available when using CHAR(15) if the size of the data is known. In my opinion the issue is that the database appends trailing spaces which meaning that text comparisons will fail. Perhaps there is an oracle operator that will strip trailing spaces?

[Matt Boersma]

This was fixed in [5001] by changing the column type to VARCHAR2(15).