Running migrate on postgresql db is attempting to migrate already migrated migrations - django

Question

I've recently upgraded form sqlite to postgresql for my django project.
In the past, whenever I've made a change to a model, I simply ran makemigrations and then the migrate command. No issues.
Now, with posgresql, when I make the INITIAL makemigrations/migrate, it works fine as per usual, but if I make a change to a model and then run makemigrations and then migrate, on the 'migrate' command, the system tries to apply the initial migration again and returns an error saying the table already exist (which it does).
How can I run migrate without the system trying to remigrate migrations that have already been migrated?
Thanks!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 15, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 401, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 395, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/base.py", line 328, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/base.py", line 369, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/base.py", line 83, in wrapped
res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 233, in handle
fake_initial=fake_initial,
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 117, in migrate
state = self._migrate_all_forwards(state, plan, full_plan, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 147, in _migrate_all_forwards
state = self.apply_migration(state, migration, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 245, in apply_migration
state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 124, in apply
operation.database_forwards(self.app_label, schema_editor, old_state, project_state)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/migrations/operations/models.py", line 92, in database_forwards
schema_editor.create_model(model)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 324, in create_model
self.execute(sql, params or None)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 142, in execute
cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 68, in execute
return self._execute_with_wrappers(sql, params, many=False, executor=self._execute)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 77, in _execute_with_wrappers
return executor(sql, params, many, context)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 86, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/utils.py", line 90, in __exit__
raise dj_exc_value.with_traceback(traceback) from exc_value
File "/home/jimmy/lib/python3.6/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql)
django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "profiles_accentcolor" already exists

Answer 1

Looks like i have to run python manage.py migrate --fake-initial to ignore initial migrations.