Changing from ManyToMany to a CharField seeks to drop non existant tablename

[Zenobius Jiricek <zenobius.jiricek@…>]

South 0.7.3
Django 1.3.1

I had a model with a ManyToMany? field that pointed at cms.Placholder.

Then I decided to change it to a CharField? that is based on a generator class providing options built from a qury of cms.Placeholder.objects.all().values('slot').distinct().

So I commented out the ManyToMany? field, inserted the new CharField? with its choices generator, and generated a migration. No errors so far.

However when I attempt to perform the migration, it complains about a non existant tablename :

django.db.utils.DatabaseError: no such table: cmsplugin_embedpagesplugin_placeholders

Looking at the migration I can see that it has mis-calculated the table name to drop.

Notice that in migration 2, I simply had to either, manually change the table name or ignore the exception.

I've attached the models.py, and both the migrations.

[Zenobius Jiricek <zenobius.jiricek@…>]

application model

[Zenobius Jiricek <zenobius.jiricek@…>]

initial migration

[andrew]

Why didn't you have a cmsplugin_embedpagesplugin_placeholders table? It seems like you should have had one to support the previous ManyToMany?.