id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
979	Changing from ManyToMany to a CharField seeks to drop non existant tablename	Zenobius Jiricek <zenobius.jiricek@…>	andrew	"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."	defect	new	minor	The Future	migrations	0.7.3