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

I commented out the field, ran schemamigration, then migrate. Uncommented out the field, ran schemamigration, then migrate and it worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong.