Question

After making some changes in my models (eg. new field in a model and a new model) what is the best way of reflecting these changes to my populated database?

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PS: I wanted to see many solutions in one place rated. Apparently more solutions are already listed here.

Answer 1

I’ve asked a similar question here and got quite a few answers.

There are quite a lot of ways of doing it, like manually doing the dumping and reloading with SQL, using fixtures or using one of the ’emerging’ schema-evolution packages for Django:

• Django Evolution
• South
• dmigrations (there’s a DjangoCon video of a panel on schema-evolution in Django where these 3 solutions are discussed)