Probably the code for dropping columns was never updated to handle rnames. 
Please submit an issue in the pydal repo: 
https://github.com/web2py/pydal/issues.

Anthony

On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 11:48:24 AM UTC-4, Doug Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi I'm a relative noob to web2py and python - but plenty of dev 
> experience. Must say it has been a smooth learning curve for me and most 
> stuff just works out the box... thanks Massimo!
>
> Pretty sure I found a bug here though. Running on ubuntu Xenial, 
> postgresql 9.6 with psycopg2. I have a table defined thus:
>
> db.define_table('FileServer',
>             Field('HostName', rname='host_name', type='string', length=32, 
> label='Host', comment='The Host Name of the Server on the network'),
>             Field('Address', rname='file_server_address', type='string', 
> length=32, label='Address', comment='The Address of the Server'),
>             Field('CommissioningDate', rname='file_server_comm_date', 
> type='date', label='Commissioning Date', comment='The date on which the 
> Server was commissioned (YYYY-MM-DD)'),
>             Field('OS', rname='file_server_os', type='string', length=32, 
> label='OS', comment='The Operating System running on the Server'),
>             audit,
>             rname='file_server',
>             format='%(HostName)s',
>             singular='Server',
>             plural='Servers',
>             migrate=True)
>
> Decided to drop the OS column and create a new relation for it instead. 
> The migration fails with "relation fileserver does not exist". Went to look 
> in my sql.log file and found these entries:
>
> from run previous when table is created
>
> timestamp: 2017-05-30T13:10:09.134114
> CREATE TABLE file_server(
>     id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
>     host_name VARCHAR(32),
>     file_server_address VARCHAR(32),
>     file_server_comm_date DATE,
>     file_server_os VARCHAR(32),
>     created_on TIMESTAMP,
>     created_by INTEGER REFERENCES auth_user (id) ON DELETE CASCADE  ,
>     updated_on TIMESTAMP,
>     updated_by INTEGER REFERENCES auth_user (id) ON DELETE CASCADE  ,
>     is_validated CHAR(1),
>     is_active CHAR(1)
> );
> success!
>
>
> when I kick off the migration
>
> timestamp: 2017-05-31T15:43:53.289791
> ALTER TABLE FileServer DROP COLUMN os;
>
> notice that rname is specified in define_table (highlighted above)
>
> Seems the migration code observes rname for table creation (table and 
> column name) but not dropping the column where ALTER TABLE uses the Table 
> and Field names in the SQL?? I find it hard to believe that such a mature 
> product could suffer such a basic bug. Not sure this is the place to report 
> it. Somebody direct me to the right forum?
>
> Having a whale of a time otherwise \m/
>

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