On Aug 17, 2017 10:10 AM, "Alexander Joseph" <alexander.v.jos...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm pretty new to django and I've been having problems with makemigrations/migrate and I wonder if Im doing things right. I'm using MySQL backend and after reading in the documentation a little it sounds like Postgresql might make migrating more painless. Usually my problems stem from changing table fields, adding new tables/models, and migrating both on my development server and my production server (PythonAnywhere) More than once I've had to drop my database, delete all my migrations, and start over with initial migrations on the development server. This wont fly for long on production though of course .. once I actually have users and data. I'm wondering if I should switch to postgresql or if theres any further resources that you might know of that would help me out? Thanks Switching to a different DBMS will probably not alleviate migration issues, especially if your project is still in its infancy and your migrations are all still auto-generated. The migration system was designed to abstract away the differences between the supported DBMS' so that you as the developer didn't need to worry about it. Ideally you would be able to deploy the same set of migrations on any of the supported databases. Many Django devs have a bias towards Postgres, but much effort is put toward ensuring that MySQL is supported since that is the only option for many developers on their hosting platform. Some operations require extra work in the migrations, and are challenging to implement regardless of the DB platform. This is likely what you are running into. I highly doubt MySQL itself is the cause, but it's possible. I'd recommend posting up some of the errors that you are getting so that the folks here can help. Might be more beneficial than setting up Postgres and having the same issues. -James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2Be%2BciXA-iNG5cf-q7P9T-cVCjsw44zTgbmBJFM_qBe2c0zdQw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
