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 recently had the same issue and tried some of the solutions here. manage.py migrate --fake led to a "django_content_type" does not exist error. Equally deleting old migrations might cause problems for other users if the migrations are shared.

The manage.py squashmigrations command (docs) seems to be the ideal way to deal with this. Condenses old migrations into a single migration (which prevents applying them out of sequence etc), and preserves the old migrations for any other users. It worked in my case at least.