Django/Postgres migration failing “django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation ”django_site“ does not exist”

Question

Having issue migrating a Django 1.8.1 project

Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: raven_contrib_django, staticfiles, found_dash, messages,          


        

Answer 1

The problem is internal to Django. It doesn't take into account your app's dependency on django_site at the time of creating tables.

However, you can easily circumvent the problem creating a migration for the app whose dependency on django.contrib.sites is causing the error.

Solve this by:

src/manage.py makemigrations allauth

(Existing migrations will cause tables to be created at a later time and also perform dependency checks between migrated apps.)