drizzle-team/drizzle-orm · error · Error

You can't use country generator with a db column length rest

Error message

You can't use country generator with a db column length restriction of ${this.stringLength}. Set the maximum string length to at least ${maxCountryLength}.

What it means

Error "You can't use country generator with a db column length restriction of ${this.stringLength}. Set the maximum string length to at least ${maxCountryLength}." thrown in drizzle-team/drizzle-orm.

Source

Thrown at drizzle-seed/src/services/Generators.ts:2100

export class GenerateCountry extends AbstractGenerator<{
	isUnique?: boolean;
	arraySize?: number;
}> {
	static override readonly entityKind: string = 'GenerateCountry';

	private state: {
		rng: prand.RandomGenerator;
	} | undefined;
	override uniqueVersionOfGen = GenerateUniqueCountry;

	override init({ count, seed }: { count: number; seed: number }) {
		super.init({ count, seed });

		const rng = prand.xoroshiro128plus(seed);

		if (this.stringLength !== undefined && this.stringLength < maxCountryLength) {
			throw new Error(
				`You can't use country generator with a db column length restriction of ${this.stringLength}. Set the maximum string length to at least ${maxCountryLength}.`,
			);
		}

		this.state = { rng };
	}

	generate() {
		if (this.state === undefined) {
			throw new Error('state is not defined.');
		}

		let idx: number;

		[idx, this.state.rng] = prand.uniformIntDistribution(0, countries.length - 1, this.state.rng);
		const country = countries[idx] as string;

		return country;

View on GitHub (pinned to b7862528fd)

Solutions

1. Increase the column's maximum string length to at least the maximum country name length, or use a different generator.

When it happens

Trigger: Using the country generator on a column shorter than the longest country name.

Common situations: varchar(n) too small for country names; raise to maxCountryLength.

AI-assisted analysis of drizzle-team/drizzle-orm@b7862528fd (2026-08-03). Data as JSON: /data/errors/510f61e41625179a.json. Report an issue: GitHub.