How to write migration to change primary key of model with ManyToManyField

Question

I have a UserProfile model that refers to my User model with a OneToOneField. I also use the post_save signal to auto cr

Answer 1

So I ended up with SQL to fix it. The core of my solution is below - basically I

• create an index on user_id in the new profile
  • this index needs to exist before I can reference it as a foreign key
• create a new through table
  • I started with the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE userprofile_userprofile_subjects (MySQL specific)
  • I modified the key names and constraint names slightly
• copy all the data into the new through table
• drop the old through table
• rename the new through table to have the name of the old through table
• finally do the operations that django migrations automatically generated for me

I hope this helps someone else. And I'd still be interested to know about a better solution.

from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        # ...
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunSQL(
            'ALTER TABLE userprofile_userprofile '
            'ADD INDEX `userprofile_userprofile_1234abcd` (user_id)'
        ),
        migrations.RunSQL (
            'CREATE TABLE userprofile_temp_table ('
            '`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, '
            '`userprofile_id` int(11) NOT NULL, '
            '`subject_id` int(11) NOT NULL, '
            'PRIMARY KEY (`id`), '
            'UNIQUE KEY `userprofile_userprofile_subjects_userprofile_us_7ded3060_uniq` (`userprofile_id`,`subject_id`), '
            'KEY `userprofile_userprofile_subject_1be9924f` (`userprofile_id`), '
            'KEY `userprofile_userprofile_subject_e5a9504a` (`subject_id`), '
            'CONSTRAINT `subject_id_refs_id_69796996` FOREIGN KEY (`subject_id`) REFERENCES `otherapp_subject` (`id`), '
            'CONSTRAINT `userprofile_user_id_refs_user_id_1234abcd` FOREIGN KEY (`userprofile_id`) REFERENCES `userprofile_userprofile` (`user_id`) '
            ') ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=35500 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 '
        ),
        migrations.RunSQL (
            'INSERT INTO userprofile_temp_table '
            '(userprofile_id, subject_id) '
            '('
            '  SELECT userprofile_userprofile.user_id, userprofile_userprofile_subjects.subject_id'
            '    FROM userprofile_userprofile_subjects'
            '    INNER JOIN userprofile_userprofile'
            '    ON userprofile_userprofile_subjects.userprofile_id ='
            '        userprofile_userprofile.id'
            ')'
        ),
        migrations.RunSQL (
            'DROP TABLE `userprofile_userprofile_subjects`'
        ),
        migrations.RunSQL (
            'RENAME TABLE `userprofile_temp_table` TO `userprofile_userprofile_subjects`'
        ),
        migrations.RemoveField(
            model_name='userprofile',
            name='id',
        ),
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='userprofile',
            name='user',
            field=models.OneToOneField(
                primary_key=True, serialize=False, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL
            ),
            preserve_default=True,
        ),
    ]