Update the database

django-paypal uses South for migrations for Django < 1.7, and the built in Django migrations framework for Django >= 1.7.

To update your database:

• For Django < 1.7:

  • Ensure South is installed if it isn’t already:

    • Do:

      pip install 'South>=1.0.1'
      

    • Add ‘south’ to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

    • Run the following to install South tables:

      ./manage.py syncdb
      

  • Then for each time you install or upgrade django-paypal, run:

    ./manage.py migrate
    

• For Django >= 1.7, do:

  ./manage.py migrate
  

Upgrading from previous versions

If you using Django < 1.7 and are upgrading from a version that wasn’t using South, you will have to use --fake - see http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/commands.html?highlight=fake

It will probably look something like:

./manage.py migrate ipn --fake --initial
./manage.py migrate pdt --fake --initial
./manage.py migrate pro --fake --initial

depending on what apps you have installed.

Upgrading to Django 1.7

The recommended upgrade procedure is:

• first upgrade django-paypal to the latest version and run migrations as above.

• then upgrade Django to 1.7, and run the following as appropriate for your situation:

  ./manage.py migrate ipn --fake
  ./manage.py migrate pdt --fake
  ./manage.py migrate pro --fake
  

  In this way, you can avoid running equivalent migrations twice (the South versions and the Django built-in versions).