migrate does not create missing intermediate table

[shige.abe@…]

If I have an app that has a ManyToMany relation, it creates an intermediate table in the database.

In the lastest stable/1.7.x branch, if I delete the intermediate table only, ./manage.py migrate does not create it.

I was expecting Django to notice that table was missing and to create it.

[David S]

the migrations framework use a table in the database to record which migrations have been applied (as opposed to e.g. introspection). thus, if you manually mess with the tables, it can't tell.