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23009	migrations may generate too long identifiers for the database	Thom Wiggers	nobody	"Similar to #1820, I am getting 'too long identifier' errors when using Django
1.7rc1 migrations.


See this trace:
{{{
  [snip]
  Applying gamemaker.0001_initial...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""./manage.py"", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 377, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 288, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 337, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py"", line 160, in handle
    executor.migrate(targets, plan, fake=options.get(""fake"", False))
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py"", line 62, in migrate
    self.apply_migration(migration, fake=fake)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py"", line 96, in apply_migration
    migration.apply(project_state, schema_editor)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/schema.py"", line 82, in __exit__
    self.execute(sql)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/schema.py"", line 98, in execute
    cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py"", line 81, in execute
    return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py"", line 65, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py"", line 94, in __exit__
    six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py"", line 65, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py"", line 128, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py"", line 205, in execute
    self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
  File ""/home/thom/git/cachegame/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py"", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
    raise errorclass, errorvalue
django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1059, ""Identifier name 'gamepartrequirement_id_refs_gamepartrequirement_id_73910b1f79e0e715' is too long"")

}}}

When I `rm -r gamemaker/migrations`, everything goes well when I run ./migrate.py syncdb.

I'm using MySQL-python 1.2.5.
"	Bug	closed	Migrations	1.7-rc-1	Release blocker	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0