Thanks. Still not sure how to wipe the database before starting fresh with South.
On Mar 2, 8:50 pm, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > If it's dummy data then you can always wipe it and reset South. > > There are some issues with sqlite. Not all constraints are enforced and > it doesn't support removing fields, for two biggies. So you can't delete > a field from a model (the migration will fail), and you can't use the > 'unique_together' meta feature either. It will never raise an error and > it'll let you put duplicate records in. > > A lot of people develop locally with sqlite for the convenience then > deploy PostgreSQL for a robust DB. > > To answer your questions: > > 1. If you're going to wipe the DB and start over then you're already set. > However, if you want to start South from scratch (it'll make your tests > run faster because you'll have fewer migrations), you can do this: > A: ./manage.py reset south > B: rm appname/migrations/* > C: ./manage.py convert_to_south appname > > 2. If you wipe the DB it'll obviously destroy all data and you'll have > to reload. You could export fixtures first, but restoring them will > depend on whether they were tied to your app's data. > > 3. No. > > 4. Not if you're not worried about losing any data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
