DateField is a representation of datetime.date, so you should assign a date object and not a string, sqlite is more forgiving and doesn't complain so much in many cases
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This field: > > activity_date = models.DateField('Datum', default='17/06/2017') > > > Results in this migration: > > class Migration(migrations.Migration): > > dependencies = [ > ('activities', '0006_auto_20161231_1703'), > ] > > operations = [ > migrations.AlterField( > model_name='activity', > name='activity_date', > field=models.DateField(default='17/06/2017', > verbose_name='Datum'), > ), > ] > > > Which works fine on SQLite but gives this error on Postgres: > > Operations to perform: > Apply all migrations: activities, addressbook, admin, auth, contenttypes > , sessions, users > Running migrations: > Applying activities.0007_auto_20170103_2309...Traceback (most recent > call last): > File "manage.py", line 22, in <module> > execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/core/management/__init__.py", line 367, in > execute_from_command_line > utility.execute() > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/core/management/__init__.py", line 359, in execute > self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/core/management/base.py", line 294, in run_from_argv > self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/core/management/base.py", line 345, in execute > output = self.handle(*args, **options) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 204, in handle > fake_initial=fake_initial, > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 115, in migrate > state = self._migrate_all_forwards(state, plan, full_plan, fake=fake, > fake_initial=fake_initial) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 145, in _migrate_all_forwards > state = self.apply_migration(state, migration, fake=fake, fake_initial > =fake_initial) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 244, in apply_migration > state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 129, in apply > operation.database_forwards(self.app_label, schema_editor, old_state, > project_state) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/migrations/operations/fields.py", line 204, in database_forwards > schema_editor.alter_field(from_model, from_field, to_field) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 495, in alter_field > old_db_params, new_db_params, strict) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/backends/postgresql/schema.py", line 117, in _alter_field > new_db_params, strict, > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 578, in _alter_field > new_default = self.effective_default(new_field) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 221, in effective_default > default = field.get_db_prep_save(default, self.connection) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 755, in get_db_prep_save > prepared=False) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1280, in get_db_prep_value > value = self.get_prep_value(value) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1275, in get_prep_value > return self.to_python(value) > File "/webapps/mzg/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ > django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1250, in to_python > params={'value': value}, > django.core.exceptions.ValidationError: ["'17/06/2017' waarde heeft een > ongeldige datumnotatie. Deze moet in de YYYY-MM-DD notatie opgegeven > worden."] > > > > The error says: "DATE" has an invalid date notation. It must be submitted > as YYYY-MM-DD notation. Timezone/locale is Europe/Amsterdam in case that > makes a difference. > > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 2:17:36 PM UTC+1, Avraham Serour wrote: >> >> please post your migration file and the error >> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I recently set a default value in my local date format on a >>> DateTimeField while I was using SQLite. The migration ran fine on my SQLite >>> dev database, but when trying to apply the migration on my production >>> Postgres database I got an error saying that a default value for >>> DateTimeField must be in the format of 'YYYY-MM-DD'. Wouldn't it be prudent >>> to force users to always specify the default value in the 'YYYY-MM-DD' >>> format to avoid this problem of portability? 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