django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation already exists

Question

I\'m trying to set up the tables for a new django project (that is, the tables do NOT already exist in the database); the django version is 1.7 and the db back end is Postgr

Answer 1

I was facing the similar issues, where i had changed column name. I was getting same error as mentioned in the stack-trace provided with he question.

Here's what I did.

I ran fake migrations first. Then i removed it's(migrations i wanted to run) entry from django_migrations table and ran migrations again(no fake this time).

Changes appeared as expected for me.

hope this is helpful.