From 77ec85adae4d975871758ad59aed073168c2c822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Brown Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:52:44 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] [1.7.x] Note re migrations importing custom fields Backport of b4d486c80f from master --- docs/topics/migrations.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/migrations.txt b/docs/topics/migrations.txt index 461801fb34..685c716f3c 100755 --- a/docs/topics/migrations.txt +++ b/docs/topics/migrations.txt @@ -333,7 +333,9 @@ They will, however, have the same fields, relationships and ``Meta`` options References to functions in field options such as ``upload_to`` and ``limit_choices_to`` are serialized in migrations, so the functions will need -to be kept around for as long as there is a migration referencing them. +to be kept around for as long as there is a migration referencing them. Any +:doc:`custom model fields ` will also need to be +kept, since these are imported directly by migrations. In addition, the base classes of the model are just stored as pointers, so you must always keep base classes around for as long as there is a migration