adding EmailField fails in sqlite

[preston@…]

Not sure how much this is south vs django vs sqlite3

When I create a migration that consists of adding only an EmailField? and try to migrate I get:

sqlite3.OperationalError?: Cannot add a NOT NULL column with default value NULL

adding default= to the field fixes things

[andrew]

This is entirely expected; you didn't put null=True in the definition, so in database terms that means that you require some default when you're adding the column. 0.7 and above will have a startmigration that detects this for you and prompts you for the default value you want.