Question

I’m using Django ( < v1.7), with SQLite3 as the database engine.

I am trying to add a new field to an already existing model’s class. This class already has data associated to it.

manage.py syncdb is not adding the new fields to the db.

Is there was a way to:

1. Add the new Field to the already existing class, and make sure a db entry is allocated to it?

2. Populate this new field with an empty string for all the already existing db entries?

Answer 1

Install south in your django and you can easily handle the existing tables. check this

If you really want to use Django-South, install it on your django, after adding your new fields to your existing model run

python manage.py schemamigration –initial

It will create a file in your project app. then,

python manage.py migrate

thats it your table is altered.