While working on submitting a form, I ran into SQL errors when users submitted inputs that were too long for the columns.
In the schema macro, I declared the field like this:
field(:billing_country, :string, size: 2, null: false, default: "")
An in order to prevent a nasty truncation error from the database, I had to add a validation in the changeset like this:
|> validate_length(:billing_country, is: 2)
My question is – is this redundant? Shouldn’t the schema know how long its fields are without me having to specifically create a validation rule for it? Is there an easier way to define the schemas so I don’t have to list the field sizes and create a validate_length rule for each?
