Django column “name” of relation “django_content_type” does not exist

Question

I keep getting the following error when doing a migration (python manage.py migrate):

django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: column \"name\" of relation \"django_         


        

Answer 1

I was getting this error after we decided to remove migrations from version control (git) and create a new database from scratch.

Something that worked for me (although to be honest I'm not sure why) was to run 'makemigrations' for each app. so, 'python manage.py makemigrations app1', 'python manage.py makemigrations app2', and so on for each Django app.

Finally, I just ran 'python manage.py migrate', crossed my fingers, and it worked.

Any insight into how/why this worked would be helpful.