The database needs something to populate existing rows…but the table doesn’t exist yet and there are no rows

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I’m getting this running python3 manage.py makemigrations

You are trying to add the field ‘created_at’ with ‘auto_now_add=True’ to sitemetadata without a default; the database needs something to populate existing rows.

But the table doesn’t exist yet, and there are no rows. How can I use makemigrations here properly?

  • What are the circumstances around the table not existing? Is it completely new or was it created by an earlier migration and deleted manually?

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