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The behavior of the MariaDB backend has changed behavior for UUIDField from a CharField(32) to an actual uuid type. This is not converted automatically, which results in all writes to the affected columns to error with a message about the data being too long. This is because the actual tring being written is a UUID with the - included, resulting in a 36 character value which can't be inserted into a 32 character column.

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https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/releases/5.0/#migrating-uuidfield

Testing instructions

Configure edx-platform to use a MariaDB database, run the migrations up through the Django 5.2 update, then perform the 5.2 update and try to enroll a user. It will error. After applying these migrations it should work.

Deadline

This is a blocking error that prevents the master branch from being operational when using MariaDB as the database engine.

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The behavior of the MariaDB backend has changed behavior for UUIDField
from a `CharField(32)` to an actual `uuid` type. This is not converted
automatically, which results in all writes to the affected columns to
error with a message about the data being too long. This is because the
actual tring being written is a UUID with the `-` included, resulting in
a 36 character value which can't be inserted into a 32 character column.
@blarghmatey blarghmatey force-pushed the mariadb_uuid_field_conversion branch from fce4503 to 0515e64 Compare October 17, 2025 15:59
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ormsbee commented Oct 20, 2025

Ugh, I hadn't realized that Django was doing this for MariaDB. 😞 Are you planning to make PRs for other repos as well, like https://github.com/openedx/openedx-learning and https://github.com/openedx/edx-submissions?

Thank you.

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ormsbee commented Oct 20, 2025

@blarghmatey: I assigned myself as a reviewer for this one. I'll look at it in the next day or so.

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I'll merge as soon as tests pass (I'm assuming the testing issue I saw was transient).

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Thanks! I'm also working on identifying other repos that need a similar set of migrations and opening PRs for them.

@ormsbee ormsbee merged commit 0fdb6ed into openedx:master Oct 20, 2025
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ormsbee commented Oct 20, 2025

@blarghmatey: Please feel free to tag me on all these MariaDB PRs. Thank you!

blarghmatey added a commit to mitodl/edx-platform that referenced this pull request Oct 23, 2025
The behavior of the MariaDB backend has changed behavior for UUIDField
from a `CharField(32)` to an actual `uuid` type. This is not converted
automatically, which results in all writes to the affected columns to
error with a message about the data being too long. This is because the
actual tring being written is a UUID with the `-` included, resulting in
a 36 character value which can't be inserted into a 32 character column.

(cherry picked from commit 0fdb6ed)
naincy128 pushed a commit to edx/edx-platform that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2025
The behavior of the MariaDB backend has changed behavior for UUIDField
from a `CharField(32)` to an actual `uuid` type. This is not converted
automatically, which results in all writes to the affected columns to
error with a message about the data being too long. This is because the
actual tring being written is a UUID with the `-` included, resulting in
a 36 character value which can't be inserted into a 32 character column.
naincy128 pushed a commit to edx/edx-platform that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2025
The behavior of the MariaDB backend has changed behavior for UUIDField
from a `CharField(32)` to an actual `uuid` type. This is not converted
automatically, which results in all writes to the affected columns to
error with a message about the data being too long. This is because the
actual tring being written is a UUID with the `-` included, resulting in
a 36 character value which can't be inserted into a 32 character column.
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