Django 1.8 RC1: ProgrammingError when creating database tables

Question

I\'m using AbstractBaseUser for my user models in various projects. Updating to Django 1.8 RC1 works smoothly and I can run the migrate management command. However, when try

Answer 1

I've faced almost the same issue with Django 1.8, solved it only by running manage.py makemigrations app_name for the app with custom User model (+read below)

e.g.:

# some_app/models.py:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser


class User(AbstractUser):
    pass

AND FOR EVERY app that contained ForeignKey, OneToOneField etc references to it, e.g.:

# another_app/models.py:
from django.conf import settings
from django.db import models


class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

then manage.py migrate worked with no errors

the same approach works for any app containing extensions to django.contrib models, e.g. FlatPages etc...