Modify Model after Activation

[Glyn Price]

Modify Model after Activation

After activating the Model, modifying database related items is not straight forward for me. Example of such items are: number of fields in

the table, name of table & names of fields.

For now, rather than investigate the relevant migration methods, I noticed that if I did the changes to the Model as part of the following

sequence then I seemed to be successful: delete db.sqlite3; delete the polls/migrations/0001_initial.py;

python manage.py migrate; python manage.py createsuperuser; modify database related items in models.py;

the 4 commands line involved with the model activation and lastly the straight forward changes in, for example,

views.py, models.py (non-database related) & latest_list.html.

By using this method I've lost the data in db.sqlite3, but at the stage I'm at that is no problem. Just in case I've drifted

into error, are there other limitations that I've missed?

Thanks Glyn

[Sarah Bird]

Hi Glyn,

You need to understand South (http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html).

South handles migrations for you.

Run through the tutorial (http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/) and you should be all up to speed. The migrations are not manually created by us, they are auto-generated (although they may be manually tweaked for more complicated stuff).

Bird

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