DatabaseError: value too long for type character varying(100)

Question

I have a Django web site running a mini CMS we\'ve built internally years ago, it\'s using postgresql. When saving a simple title and a paragraph of text I get the following err

Answer 1

i went through this same error. and when i made changes in the modele, i kept having the same error.

Here is how i fixed it. It might be necessary to skip few migrations for the program to only use the migration where changes have been made for the CharField max_lenght.

for that you have to run

python manage.py showmigrations 

to see which migrations have not been made.

then you skip them until you get to the last with the command

python manage.py migrate  000_migration_number --fake