Django & South: Adding new field but DatabaseError occurs “table already exists”

Question

In trying to add a new field to a preexisting Model/table, I get a DatabaseError with \'table already exists.\' I have run migrations before this one so I am a bit puzzled why a

Answer 1

You need to do schemamigration app --initial first without your new field, then migrate app --fake 0001 (or whichever migration number it returned) to set the south database to that state (tables already created).

Add your new field, then run schemamigration myapp --auto, then migrate.