tangentlabs/django-oscar — comment on commit 63175fb31a9a3d5a274d324b44d2b12969292257
File: oscar/apps/product/abstract_models.py line 49
By Geekfish:

Andy, is there a reason why the slug's max_length is 1024?

Slug inherits from CharField which has a max of 255 and MySQL seems to be using a VarChar field for this as well.
When I tried to use south to create migrations I had to edit the migrations to reduce the max length on the db side only else mysql dies in a horrible horrible way. Is this necessary?