Well, upon digging further myself, I noticed that was an old foreign key in my Pictures table referring to the non-existant auth_user table: sql: "last_changed_user_id" integer NOT NULL REFERENCES "auth_user" ("id") This was not referenced anymore in the model. So, I guess that in order to use alembic properly I should not have manually deleted that table (in fact I did that before starting to use alembic), but to remove both the table and the foreign key in the model and then let alembic apply both changes to the database in one go. Correct?
For reference purposes still find here the complete stack trace without having the solution applied yet. Note again that I inserted some debug statements here and there in the sqlalchemy/alembic code, so line numbers may deviate. Traceback (most recent call last): File "virtualenv\Scripts\alembic-script.py", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('alembic==0.7.6', 'console_scripts', 'alembic')() File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\config.py", line 439, in main CommandLine(prog=prog).main(argv=argv) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\config.py", line 433, in main self.run_cmd(cfg, options) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\config.py", line 416, in run_cmd **dict((k, getattr(options, k)) for k in kwarg) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\command.py", line 113, in revision script.run_env() File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\script.py", line 390, in run_env util.load_python_file(self.dir, 'env.py') File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\util.py", line 243, in load_python_file module = load_module_py(module_id, path) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\compat.py", line 79, in load_module_py mod = imp.load_source(module_id, path, fp) File "alembic\env.py", line 99, in <module> run_migrations_online() File "alembic\env.py", line 92, in run_migrations_online context.run_migrations() File "<string>", line 7, in run_migrations File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\environment.py", line 738, in run_migrations self.get_context().run_migrations(**kw) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\migration.py", line 300, in run_migrations for step in self._migrations_fn(heads, self): File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\command.py", line 95, in retrieve_migrations autogen._produce_migration_diffs(context, template_args, imports) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\autogenerate\api.py", line 154, in _produce_migration_diffs autogen_context, object_filters, include_schemas) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\autogenerate\api.py", line 256, in _produce_net_changes inspector, metadata, diffs, autogen_context) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\alembi c\autogenerate\compare.py", line 84, in _compare_tables inspector.reflecttable(t, None) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\engine\reflection.py", line 590, in reflecttable exclude_columns, reflection_options) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\engine\reflection.py", line 720, in _reflect_fk **reflection_options File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\sql\schema.py", line 441, in __new__ metadata._remove_table(name, schema) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\util\langhelpers.py", line 60, in __exit__ compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\sql\schema.py", line 432, in __new__ table._init(name, metadata, *args, **kw) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\sql\schema.py", line 513, in _init self._autoload(metadata, autoload_with, include_columns) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\sql\schema.py", line 528, in _autoload self, include_columns, exclude_columns File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\engine\base.py", line 1481, in run_callable return callable_(self, *args, **kwargs) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\engine\default.py", line 364, in reflecttable return insp.reflecttable(table, include_columns, exclude_columns) File "F:\Workspace\MyProject\src\virtualenv\Lib\site-packages\sqlalc hemy\engine\reflection.py", line 578, in reflecttable raise exc.NoSuchTableError(table.name) sqlalchemy.exc.NoSuchTableError: auth_user -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy-alembic" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy-alembic+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.