django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1071, 'Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes')

Question

My model:

class Course(models.Model):
    language = models.ForeignKey(Language)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True, default=\'course\')
         


        

Answer 1

Upgrade mysql to 5.7 and try migrate again.

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.1-1_all.deb  
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.1-1_all.deb  
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server