Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#25752 closed Bug

RenameField on m2m causes error when new m2m field is added with old name — at Version 3

Reported by: skyjur Owned by: nobody
Component: Migrations Version: 1.7
Severity: Normal Keywords: postgres migrations renamefield
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by skyjur)

Given I have a field

   many = ManyToManyField()

I create a migration:

   RenameField: "many" to "many_legacy"
   Create Field: "many" as ManyToManyField()

When I run the migration I get:

...
  File "django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "django/db/utils.py", line 97, in __exit__
    six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
  File "django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "cms_test_many_2e06cda4" already exists

It seems the problem is that RenameField does not rename database indexes, and then when new m2m field is being added it tries to create index with same name and so I get database error.

Here is full migration code which throws this error:

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RenameField(
            'test',
            'many',
            'many_legacy',
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='test',
            name='many',
            field=models.ManyToManyField(to='cms.NewRel2'),
        ),
    ]

Initially I noticed this error on 1.7, then I also managed to replicate it on 1.8

Error happened on postgres database.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by skyjur, 9 years ago

comment:2 by skyjur, 9 years ago

Type: UncategorizedBug

comment:3 by skyjur, 9 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
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