Django migration relation does not exist

Question

So I'm trying to run the initial migrations on a django app and when I try to run the migrate command (python manage.py migrate or makemigrations) I get the following error:

psycopg2.ProgrammingError: relation "dotworks_server_internship" does not exist
LINE 1: ...s", "dotworks_server_internship"."questions" FROM "dotworks_...
                                                             ^

I'm on a Windows environment using Django 1.9.6 and my database is postgres. Plus, I'm using PGAdmin to manage my database.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'dotworks',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'PASSWORD': 'mypasswordgoeshere',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

Answer 1

Make sure that you don't have any class variables in your code that are calling Django manager

For example:

class SomeViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
    se = SomeEntity.objects.first()  # fetching some entity on the class level

    def list(self, request):
    # the rest of the code

So, when you try to create/apply migrations, this variable will also try to initialise, and will try to access SomeEntity, but at that moment that entity doesn't even exist, and the error occurs.