Thanks Reinout. I have been seeing a lot of discussions regarding South lately - time to dive in and find out what it is and what it means for me.
I was under the impression that Django would add a field to my table. So, is syncdb only good during initial database setup? Many thanks, Lloyd On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Reinout van Rees <rein...@vanrees.org>wrote: > On 08/24/2010 04:17 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been working on some models and tried to run the manage.py syncdb >> command. It says there are no fixtures found even after I just added a >> field to a model. >> > > No fixtures found: it means to tell you that it didn't find any > special-named "initial_data" fixtures. > > Regular fixtures must/can be loaded with "manage.py loaddata fixturename". > > > A solution has been to drop the table in MySQL before running syncdb. >> This doesn't seem feasible all the time. What could I be doing wrong? >> > > It is a (sensible) restriction of syncdb: it only creates missing tables. > If you modified a table, the table is still there, so it won't re-add it. > Doing so would mean potential data corruption. > > So if you added fields to a model, you'll have to add that field by hand to > the table. > > An alternative is for instance South (http://south.aeracode.org/) which > *can* do the database migration for you, also in the case of added fields. > > > > Reinout > > -- > Reinout van Rees - rein...@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org > Programmer at http://www.nelen-schuurmans.nl > "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube http://www.lloyddube.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
