TextField default text not populate to MySQL data when migrate

[Edgenius]

When adding 2 new fields, one is CharField and another is TextField, they both nullable with default value:

subject2 = models.CharField(max_length=512, blank=True, null=True, default="Some text")
body2 = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True, default="Some text")

After migration in MySQL 8.0.19, for existing data, new CharField column populate that default "Some text" value. However, TextField is just null. This inconsistent behaviour is very confusing.

Django version is 3.2.5.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for the report, unfortunately there is not much we can do. MySQL 8.0.13+ supports BLOB/TEXT defaults (see #30712) but it's really limited (see #32832).

[Edgenius]

I doubt if this need to rely on database. It can programatically update this default value to the existing columns when runs migrate. At model.save(), it can save this default value to database. Yes, I understand this needs some tweak on migration code, but it most like an inconsistent from django, rather than database limitation.