[BangPypers] How to manage Database for Django on live server?

[Gora Mohanty]

On 30 January 2015 at 17:09, Mukesh Yadav <mak.gnu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   I recently moved my office one of the app to Django. Now its time for
> this to go live. While development we faced many problems in terms of
> conflicts in migrations file of Django. Due to this I'm not confident that
> django should take control of database (migrate and makemigrations command)
> on live server.

Would strongly recommend using migrations, rather than changing the
schema manually. I presume that you are using the built-in support for
migrations with Django 1.7. You do not explain details of the issues
that you faced with using migrations, so it is difficult to comment
further, but manual schema changes are more prone to errors.

Have not yet had occasion to use Django 1.7's migrations, but South
has been part of our Django setup for quite some time, and we have not
faced significant issues with it besides glitches when support for a
custom user was added to Django.

Regards,
Gora