Advantages to using URLField over TextField?

Question

As I understand it you should always use a TextField for a variable length string when your using a PostgreSQL database because the speed difference between a

Answer 1

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#urlfield Of course you can use CharField/TextField but handling user input and be sure whatever user enters is up-to you.

From the source code:

# As with CharField, this will cause URL validation to be performed

If you see the URLField source code you will find it's actually a CharField with URL validator.

Also there is other ready to use fields such as EmailField, ImageField, *Field!