尝试将first_name，last_name保存到Django的auth_user模型时，出现奇怪的错误消息。

失败的例子

user = User.object.create_user(username, email, password)
user.first_name = u'Rytis'
user.last_name = u'Slatkevičius'
user.save()
>>> Incorrect string value: '\xC4\x8Dius' for column 'last_name' at row 104

user.first_name = u'Валерий'
user.last_name = u'Богданов'
user.save()
>>> Incorrect string value: '\xD0\x92\xD0\xB0\xD0\xBB...' for column 'first_name' at row 104

user.first_name = u'Krzysztof'
user.last_name = u'Szukiełojć'
user.save()
>>> Incorrect string value: '\xC5\x82oj\xC4\x87' for column 'last_name' at row 104

成功的例子

user.first_name = u'Marcin'
user.last_name = u'Król'
user.save()
>>> SUCCEED

MySQL设置

mysql> show variables like 'char%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       | 
| character_set_connection | utf8                       | 
| character_set_database   | utf8                       | 
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     | 
| character_set_results    | utf8                       | 
| character_set_server     | utf8                       | 
| character_set_system     | utf8                       | 
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ | 
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

表字符集和排序规则

表auth_user具有utf-8字符集，并带有utf8_general_ci排序规则。

UPDATE命令的结果

使用UPDATE命令将上述值更新到auth_user表时，它没有引发任何错误。

mysql> update auth_user set last_name='Slatkevičiusa' where id=1;
Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0

mysql> select last_name from auth_user where id=100;
+---------------+
| last_name     |
+---------------+
| Slatkevi?iusa | 
+---------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

PostgreSQL的

当我在Django中切换数据库后端时，上面列出的失败值可以更新到PostgreSQL表中。真奇怪。

mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET;
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| Charset  | Description                 | Default collation   | Maxlen |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
...
| utf8     | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8_general_ci     |      3 | 
...

但是从http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/multibyte.html，我发现了以下内容：

Name Bytes/Char
UTF8 1-4

这是否意味着unicode char在PostgreSQL中的maxlen为4个字节，而在MySQL中为3个字节，这导致了上述错误？