[1.8.x] Fixed #24595 Oracle test failure

The only problem for Oracle was the test, which tested nullity on
text/char fields -- but Oracle interprets_empty_strings_as_null.

Backport of d5a0acc from master

tests/schema/tests.py

@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ from django.db import (
 )
 from django.db.models import Model
 from django.db.models.fields import (
-    BinaryField, BooleanField, CharField, DateTimeField, IntegerField,
+    BigIntegerField, BinaryField, BooleanField, CharField, DateTimeField,
-    PositiveIntegerField, SlugField, TextField,
+    IntegerField, PositiveIntegerField, SlugField, TextField,
 )
 from django.db.models.fields.related import (
     ForeignKey, ManyToManyField, OneToOneField,
 )
 from django.db.transaction import atomic
-from django.test import TransactionTestCase
+from django.test import TransactionTestCase, skipIfDBFeature
 
 from .fields import CustomManyToManyField, InheritedManyToManyField
 from .models import (
@@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ class SchemaTests(TransactionTestCase):
         with connection.schema_editor() as editor:
             editor.alter_field(Note, old_field, new_field, strict=True)
 
-    def test_alter_field_keep_null_status(self):
+    @skipIfDBFeature('interprets_empty_strings_as_nulls')
+    def test_alter_textual_field_keep_null_status(self):
         """
         Changing a field type shouldn't affect the not null status.
         """
@@ -442,6 +443,22 @@ class SchemaTests(TransactionTestCase):
         with self.assertRaises(IntegrityError):
             Note.objects.create(info=None)
 
+    def test_alter_numeric_field_keep_null_status(self):
+        """
+        Changing a field type shouldn't affect the not null status.
+        """
+        with connection.schema_editor() as editor:
+            editor.create_model(UniqueTest)
+        with self.assertRaises(IntegrityError):
+            UniqueTest.objects.create(year=None, slug='aaa')
+        old_field = UniqueTest._meta.get_field("year")
+        new_field = BigIntegerField()
+        new_field.set_attributes_from_name("year")
+        with connection.schema_editor() as editor:
+            editor.alter_field(UniqueTest, old_field, new_field, strict=True)
+        with self.assertRaises(IntegrityError):
+            UniqueTest.objects.create(year=None, slug='bbb')
+
     def test_alter_null_to_not_null(self):
         """
         #23609 - Tests handling of default values when altering from NULL to NOT NULL.