Hi Burak,

This limitation has been known for a long time. It’s tracked here:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8162

Your second suggestion was implemented a few weeks ago:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18866

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Aymeric.



On 16 nov. 2013, at 19:11, Burak Emre Kabakcı <[email protected]> wrote:

> The name field in Permission model in django.contrib.auth module causes 
> problems when one of the fields' verbose_name length is larger than 39 
> characters because it's maximum length is 50. 
> (https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/models.py#L63)
> Django automatically prepend "Can change", "Can delete" and "Can add" words 
> to fields' verbose names for name column when inserting rows to 
> auth_permission table so limits the maximum length of a verbose name to 39 
> character.
> When syncdb command is run, Django throws a database exception saying "Data 
> truncated for column 'name' at row x" in this case. I think the length of 
> name field is quite low but if you prefer to limit that field to 50 
> character, Django should not allow verbose name attribute to be larger than 
> 39 character.
> 
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