How to fix-no such table: main.auth_user__old

Question

Can someone give a detailed explanation on how to fix the ERROR: no such table: main.auth_user__old

It arises in my Django application when I am trying to a

Answer 1

You probably haven't run the migrations. Until you run migrations, no tables are created. Hence the error. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/migrations/#workflow

After you've registered your models, go to your git bash or powershell. Make sure you are in your project directory. Then run these commands :

python manage.py makemigrations

And then

python manage.py migrate

These commands will create tables for you and then you can add data to them.