Django's CharField requires a max_length, and TextField displays a multi-
line widget, but in Postgres there's no reason to add an arbitrary max
thanks to the varlena
storage format. So this is a TextField that
displays as a single line instead of a multiline TextArea.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | class StringField(models.TextField):
""" A simple unlimited length string field.
Django's CharField requires a max_length, and TextField displays a multi-
line widget, but in Postgres there's no reason to add an arbitrary max
thanks to the `varlena` storage format. So this is a TextField that
displays as a single line instead of a multiline TextArea.
That's all."""
def formfield(self, **kwargs):
# skip TextField's override of models.Field.formfield
return models.Field.formfield(self, **kwargs)
|
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