I'm using AbstractBaseUser for my user models in various projects. Updating to Django 1.8 RC1 works smoothly and I can run the migrate management command. However, when trying to create a fresh database table layout from scratch, I get the following error:
python manage.py migrate
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "auth_group" does not exist
All works perfectly with Django 1.7.x and I cannot find anything about this issue elsewhere. So, is it a big with the RC1 version or did something change that I'm not aware of in Django 1.8? Unfortunately, the error message doesn't really help ... but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the automatic migrations that come with the new Django version.
To copy the answer I got from the Django ticket mentioned above: Before calling "python manage.py migrate" to create the database layout, one needs to create a migration for the app that contains the custom user class:
python manage.py makemigrations appname
This creates a migration file within the app directory - et voilà, migrate does work and creates the other tables.
I faced a very similar issue, complaining about relation "auth_group" does not exist
however with Django 1.10.
The python manage.py makemigrations appname
did not help me as well.
Even the python manage.py showmigrations
was not working either, both of them raised the same error.
After examining the traceback in detail, I found out, that in one of my class-based views I was defining the queryset
class variable in the following way:
Class SomeClassBasedView(ListView):
queryset = User.objects.filter(groups=Group.objects.get(name='Tester'))
After changing this to override the get_queryset
function intead, it was working properly.
Class SomeClassBasedView(ListView):
def get_queryset(self):
return User.objects.filter(groups=Group.objects.get(name='Tester'))
I'm using:
./manage.py makemigrations
then
./manage.py migrate auth
and then
./manage.py migrate
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