#27928: Gratuitous ALTER COLUMN statements generated for adding blank=True
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     Reporter:  Christophe Pettus  |                    Owner:  nobody
         Type:  Bug                |                   Status:  new
    Component:  Migrations         |                  Version:  1.10
     Severity:  Normal             |               Resolution:
     Keywords:                     |             Triage Stage:  Accepted
    Has patch:  0                  |      Needs documentation:  0
  Needs tests:  0                  |  Patch needs improvement:  0
Easy pickings:  0                  |                    UI/UX:  0
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Changes (by Tim Graham):

 * stage:  Unreviewed => Accepted


Comment:

 Looks like an issue with
 
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/75503a823f6358892fff5aeb3691683ad9cc5a60/django/db/backends/base/schema.py#L191-L217
 SchemaEditor.effective_default()]. It returns `None` for the old field and
 `''` (empty string) for the new field, thus the
 
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/75503a823f6358892fff5aeb3691683ad9cc5a60/django/db/backends/base/schema.py#L578-L584
 needs_database_default] condition is True. Probably `effective_default()`
 should return an empty string for the old field.

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