Does Django's south (migration tool) work for innodb?

Question

$ py manage.py  migrate turkey
Running migrations for turkey:
 - Migrating forwards to 0001_initial.
 > turkey:0001_initial
 ! Error found during real run of migr         


        

Answer 1

You could try adding to your first migration:

if db.backend_name == 'mysql':
    db.execute('SET foreign_key_checks=0')

This will disable the foreign key check constraints.

You don't have to set it back to 1 since it's a session variable.

By the way, it doesn't work if you set to 0 at the beggining and back to 1 at the end of your migration method, because south generates SQL with them, but executes it when they return.