First phase of making the / (site/home) view generic enough to use it for
Sponsor "home" page, Program "home" page, Organization "home" page, etc. when
combined with HomeSettings.
First phase of addressing this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=64
by factoring "Site Settings" apart from the site/home stuff.
Patch by: Todd Larsen
Review by: Pawel Solyga
Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/1405
from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseValidation
class DatabaseValidation(BaseDatabaseValidation):
def validate_field(self, errors, opts, f):
"Prior to MySQL 5.0.3, character fields could not exceed 255 characters"
from django.db import models
from django.db import connection
db_version = connection.get_server_version()
if db_version < (5, 0, 3) and isinstance(f, (models.CharField, models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField, models.SlugField)) and f.max_length > 255:
errors.add(opts,
'"%s": %s cannot have a "max_length" greater than 255 when you are using a version of MySQL prior to 5.0.3 (you are using %s).' %
(f.name, f.__class__.__name__, '.'.join([str(n) for n in db_version[:3]])))