If I change certain attributes of a model, say add a column or change the type (or) size constraint etc, then I do
python manage.py sql myapp
python manage.py syncdb
The change doesnt get effected in the app. The change is effected only if i delete the table from my sql and give the commands again.
Is this the only way or are there any other easy ways to do it?
Yes. Get django-south and use it to migrate changes.
It's one of the most used django projects in the world and does exactly what you need.
Instead of running
python manage.py sycndb
You run
python manage.py schemamigration appname --initial
or
python manage.py schemamigration appname --auto
Or any of the other command combos. Check them out.
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There are three migration commands in Django:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py syncdb
In what order do these commands should be executed in terms of workflow of a basic project?
I am using Version: 1.8
syncdb is deprecated and does the same as migrate.
Whenever you make a change to your models, and when you first create them, each time you'd want to first run makemigrations to create the migration files, then migrate to apply them to your database.
I have a production web project running with a decent amount of data in the MySQL db. I am trying to update the database with some changes to an app called "enterlink." I've made new elements in the existing models and created new models altogether. Before this migration, I have never touched the schema of the db since originally running syncdb to create it. When I run: "python manage.py makemigrations enterlink" the below output appears(pic). My question is, why is this happening? The DB already includes all the models that it lists in the picture so why is it registering those lists of models? When I go to finish the migration by doing "python manage.py migrate" or "python manage.py migrate --fake enterlink" (pic again), I get an output shown but my database schema remains identical to the old db and any new code generates errors. Can anyone tell me what is likely the problem? I would be really appreciative of any advice. It's been very frustrating since I'm not sure what I'm missing.
What you have done is that you have ran the command python manage.py syncdb before running python manage.py makemigrations myapp and python manage.py migrate myapp. That is why syncdb created the database schema and the migration was faked because schema already exists. I will suggest to use python manage.py makemigrations myapp and python manage.py migrate myapp and not to use syncdb as its deprecated in Django 1.7.
If you change anything in your model, just run makemigrations and migrate command. Syncdb isn't necessary.
This question and relevant answers are intriguing me. Thus I want to share my experience on maintaining live database and migrations.
Tested in django1.5.5
Initializing the database:
./manage.py syncdb --noinput
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py syncdb
Now I have created the database.
Doing a migration for an app:
./manage.py schemamigration myapp --initial
./manage.py migrate myapp --fake
Now do necessary changes in your model
./manage.py schemamigration myapp --auto
./manage.py migrate myapp
Im newbie for schemamigration too, but i will explain how it works for me:
First you create app and then
./manage.py sycndb, so tables are created then you can
./manage.py makemigrations myapp --initial
so now initial migrations are created and you should apply them
./manage.py migrate myapp
now you can change your models : add,change fields, anything you want and then
./manage.py makemigrations myapp --auto
this will create migrations for changes and now you need to apply them
enter code here./manage.py migrate myapp
so this actually will create new tables in db
I have Django model that I already have initialized with south using ./manage.py schemamigration (appname) --initial. All was going well through this point, until I decided I needed another field. I added another field and tried to to migrate the change with ./manage.py schemamigration (appname) --auto, but it says:
- Nothing to migrate.
I made sure to migrate the initial changes.
Seems to be similar to the problem here, but the solution got me nowhere.
It's probably because between the --initial migration and the next schemamigration you have to persist the actual migration to the db issuing the command python manage.py migrate my_app.
After doing that first migration then you may add another field, do and schemamigration --auto and commit it to the db again by doing python manage.py migrate my_app
Hope this helps!
when I do a syncdb I get the following error everytime:
Not synced (use migrations):
- deals
- analytics
(use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these)
And when I run sudo python manage.py migrate. I get the following
Running migrations for deals:
- Nothing to migrate.
- Loading initial data for deals.
No fixtures found.
Running migrations for analytics:
- Nothing to migrate.
- Loading initial data for analytics.
No fixtures found.
I highly appreciate your help
From the output, it seems like the database is already synchronized with the migrations. There are no problematic errors. (Although you shouldn't really be root to run the migrations.)
If you're looking into creating more migrations, use the south documentation, which usually is just running the following after you modify the models:
python manage.py schemamigration --auto <APP>
And then use python manage.py migrate to apply the changes.
It looks like migrations have been already passed. Check south_migationhistory table in db.
If you want to sync new db for apps which has migrations just disable south in settings.py.
Have you ran a schemamigration initial yet?
./manage.py schemamigration deals --initial
./manage.py migrate deals
if you get the error, db already excists do this:
./manage.py schemamigration deals --initial
./manage.py migrate deals --fake
So I have a model that I wanted to add ImageField to, so I typed in
picture = models.ImageField(upload_to='media/images')
I then ran syncdb and went into the shell:
python2 manage.py syncdb
python2 manage.py shell
I then imported the model and tried
"model".objects.get(pk=1)
I get the error:
DatabaseError: no such column: people_people.picture
When I run manage.py sql for the model
"picture" varchar(100) NOT NULL
is in the database.
What solutions do you guys have? I can't delete the data in the database.
As noted in the documentation syncdb doesn't add columns to existing tables, it only creates new tables.
I suggest running
python manage.py sqlall <your_app>
Looking at the sql it outputs for the table you're changing, and then running
python manage.py dbshell
in order to manually issue an ALTER TABLE command.
In future, you might like to use a migration tool like South.
There are two possibilities that to get this error 1) You added extra field to model after doing the syncdb. 2) you added new class to model.py file in django.
Solution for this is:
First install south by using command
for windows: **easy_install south** //for that you need to go to the script folder of python folder in c drive.
for linux: **sudo easy_install south**
Then follow the steps which are included here migration tutorials
step1- python manage.py schemamigration your_app_name --initial
step-2 python manage.py migrate your_app_name
Hope this will help you.
As of 1.7 migrations within Django replaces South.
Create a new set of migration instructions by running the following command in terminal:
$ python manage.py makemigrations
Check the output in the migration folder it creates to make sure they make sense then run the following terminal command to complete the migrations:
$ python manage.py migrate
That's it.
Running migrations this way allows others to implement the same migrations instead of having to manually implement db changes on every machine using the code. On the new machine all they have to run is:
$ python manage.py migrate