I have a custom User model and custom permissions. After a while, I found that there was a typo in the name of a permission, so I decided to update it in the code that creates it, then I ran makemigrations and migrate. The problem is that name did not change in the DB even though the migration was a…

[image] zybex86: AlterModelOptions Couple different thoughts - I think this does not do what you think it’s going to do. See the docs for AlterModelOptions . There’s a big difference between changing the name of a permission and changing the description. (The combination of name and app …

Well, no, I wouldn’t agree with the use of the word ‘only’. You could always write a custom-admin command if you wanted to do something outside the normal chain of migration operations, or just write an SQL script to run directly on the database.

permission name not updating after migration

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zybex86 January 19, 2021, 1:47pm 3

@KenWhitesell and that is what I did. I figured that it was the issue…

So besides the automatic migration the only choice is to make a custom migration. Topic solved then

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permission name not updating after migration

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