DatabaseError: no such column error

Question

So I have a model that I wanted to add ImageField to, so I typed in picture = models.ImageField(upload_to=\'media/images\')

I then ran syncdb and went into the shell

Answer 1

As noted in the documentation syncdb doesn't add columns to existing tables, it only creates new tables.

I suggest running

python manage.py sqlall 

Looking at the sql it outputs for the table you're changing, and then running

python manage.py dbshell

in order to manually issue an ALTER TABLE command.

In future, you might like to use a migration tool like South.