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 5912,Models not enforcing required fields,Tom Christensen ,nobody,"Creating an instance of a model with !CharFields will fill DB fields with single quotes ({{{''}}}) if the !CharField is not populated. {{{ class Person(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) person = Person() person.first_name '' person.save() }}} Resulting DB record: first_name = {{{''}}}, last_name = {{{''}}} Using PostgreSQL 8.1 as the DB server... psycopg2 as the driver. I'm running the latest SVN just updated this morning.",,closed,"Database layer (models, ORM)",dev,,invalid,,,Accepted,0,0,0,0,0,0