Validate_length/3 in Ecto does not error on less than 3 characters

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Good Morning,

I’m running into an odd issue using validate_length in my changesets, where it doesn’t seem to error on a string less than 3 characters. Testing all of the following:

validate_length(:field, min: 1, max: 1)
validate_length(:field, max: 1)
validate_length(:field, is: 1)

as well as using count: :graphemes or count: :codepoints will net the following results:

field: "G" - No error (correct)
field: "GR" - No error (not correct)
field: "GRE" - Error (correct)

I can’t seem to find anything in source or the docs that suggests validate_length doesn’t work on strings less than 3 characters in length, or even an existing issue related to this.

I just wanted to put it out here and see if anyone else had the issue before I prop up a git repo and submit an issue with Ecto.

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Interestingly, if i set the underlying column type to char and use is: 1 it errors as expected! Though toggling it back I can no longer reproduce the problem… maybe it was a weird cache issue.