With Django==2.0, a RenameField on a model which has a reverse many to many relationship raises an exception:
AttributeError: 'ManyToManyRel' object has no attribute 'field_name' The same migration with Django==1.11 terminates successfully. Migrations are automatically generated by `manage.py makemigrations`. Am I missing something? Below the code and the commands to reproduce the problem: # myapp/models.py from django.db import models class ModelA(models.Model): new_name = models.IntegerField() class ModelB(models.Model): model_as = models.ManyToManyField('ModelA') # myapp/migrations/0001_initial.py from django.db import migrations, models class Migration(migrations.Migration): initial = True dependencies = [ ] operations = [ migrations.CreateModel( name='ModelA', fields=[ ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')), ('old_name', models.IntegerField()), ], ), migrations.CreateModel( name='ModelB', fields=[ ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')), ('model_as', models.ManyToManyField(to='myapp.ModelA')), ], ), ] # myapp/migrations/0002_auto_20171204_1012.py from django.db import migrations class Migration(migrations.Migration): dependencies = [ ('myapp', '0001_initial'), ] operations = [ migrations.RenameField( model_name='modela', old_name='old_name', new_name='new_name', ), ] $ ./manage.py migrate Operations to perform: Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, myapp, sessions Running migrations: Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK Applying auth.0001_initial... OK Applying admin.0001_initial... OK Applying admin.0002_logentry_remove_auto_add... OK Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK Applying auth.0002_alter_permission_name_max_length... OK Applying auth.0003_alter_user_email_max_length... OK Applying auth.0004_alter_user_username_opts... OK Applying auth.0005_alter_user_last_login_null... OK Applying auth.0006_require_contenttypes_0002... OK Applying auth.0007_alter_validators_add_error_messages... OK Applying auth.0008_alter_user_username_max_length... OK Applying auth.0009_alter_user_last_name_max_length... OK Applying myapp.0001_initial... OK Applying myapp.0002_auto_20171204_1012...Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 15, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 371, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 365, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 288, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 335, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 200, in handle fake_initial=fake_initial, File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 117, in migrate state = self._migrate_all_forwards(state, plan, full_plan, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 147, in _migrate_all_forwards state = self.apply_migration(state, migration, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 244, in apply_migration state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 122, in apply operation.database_forwards(self.app_label, schema_editor, old_state, project_state) File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/migrations/operations/fields.py", line 304, in database_forwards to_model._meta.get_field(self.new_name), File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/schema.py", line 81, in alter_field any(r.field_name == old_field.name for r in model._meta.related_objects)): File "/home/edg/src/example/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/schema.py", line 81, in <genexpr> any(r.field_name == old_field.name for r in model._meta.related_objects)): AttributeError: 'ManyToManyRel' object has no attribute 'field_name' $ pip freeze Django==2.0 pytz==2017.3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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