PR is here: https://github.com/django/django/pull/17539
Original comment with workaround:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27676#comment:8
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000>
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* type: Uncategorized => Cleanup/optimization
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000#comment:1>
* owner: nobody => Tobias Krönke
* needs_better_patch: 0 => 1
* status: new => assigned
* needs_tests: 0 => 1
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000#comment:2>
* needs_better_patch: 1 => 0
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000#comment:3>
* needs_tests: 1 => 0
* stage: Accepted => Ready for checkin
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000#comment:4>
* status: assigned => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
In [changeset:"d6c868a184e01f44302e8d31130fe1321208a6af" d6c868a1]:
{{{
#!CommitTicketReference repository=""
revision="d6c868a184e01f44302e8d31130fe1321208a6af"
Fixed #35000 -- Skipped declaring empty string defaults on BLOB/TEXT field
on MySQL.
Empty string defaults are redundant on MySQL and prevent use of
ALGORITHM=INSTANT.
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35000#comment:5>