django-south

$ py manage.py migrate turkey Running migrations for turkey: - Migrating forwards to 0001_initial. > turkey:0001_initial ! Error found during real run of migration! Aborting. ! Since you have a database that does not support running ! schema-altering statements in transactions, we have had ! to leave it in an interim state between migrations. ! You *might* be able to recover with: = DROP TABLE `turkey_demorecs` CASCADE; [] ! The South developers regret this has happened, and would ! like to gently persuade you to consider a slightly ! easier-to-deal-with DBMS. ! NOTE: The error which caused

I'm writing a data migration in south to fix some denormalized data I screwed up in earlier code. The way to figure out the right value for the incorrect field is to call a static method on the django model class. The code looks like this: class Account(models.Model): name = models.CharField() @staticmethod def lookup_by_name(name): # There's actually more to it than this return Account.objects.get(name=name) class Record(models.Model): account_name = models.CharField() acct = models.ForeignKey('Account') ... class Migration(DataMigration): def forwards(self, orm): # Fixing Records with the

I've got a model class Category(models.Model): title = models.CharField(...) entry = models.ManyToManyField(Entry,null=True,blank=True, related_name='category_entries', ) That I wish to refactor to have additional data with each relationship: class Category(models.Model): title = models.CharField(...) entry = models.ManyToManyField(Entry,null=True,blank=True, related_name='category_entries', through='CategoryEntry', ) But south deletes the existing table. How can I preserve the existing m-t-m relationships? Create your intermediate model without any extra fields, for now. Give it a unique

I have a django project with a database table that already contains data. I'd like to change the field name without losing any of the data in that column. My original plan was to simply change the model field name in a way that would not actually alter the name of the db table (using the db_column column parameter): The original model: class Foo(models.Model): orig_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) The new model: class Foo(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50, db_column='orig_name') But, running South's schemamigration --auto produces a migration script that deletes the

I have a Django project on a Centos VPS. I created some models and debugged them so they validate and give no errors. I have them in a "models" folder in my myapp and have added each model to the init file in this directory, for example: from category import Category I added the app to settings.py INSTALLED_APPS and ran: Python manage.py syncdb It appeared to work fine and added all tables apart from the ones for my app. I then installed South and added that to INSTALLED_APPS and, tried syncdb again and ran: Python manage.py schemamigration myapp --initial It generated the file correctly but