using South to migrate a Django sqlite3 database with unique_together

This has been fixed in Django-1.7, which is still in development. So this post apples to Django-1.6.5 (or older perhaps).

If you add a new field to a Django model with the Meta option tag 'unique_together' in a project that uses a backend sqlite3 database, then you will get the following error from South when you try to migrate it:

"object reserved for internal use"

And also that South can't roll back the changes to a sqlite3 database. So unless you had a backup you're hosed.

Luckily you backed up your database before applying the changes right? So restore it and now try this:

1. Remove the offending meta option tag.
2. Migrate the change to the model.
3. Restore the meta tag option and migrate again.

Did it work? If it didn't guess you'll have to wait for Django-1.7 or switch to a more robust backend database. It did work for me, this time at least, but who knows about next time. Can't wait for Django-1.7. Can't wait for Sphinx-1.3 too, for that matter. Check out Napoleon! No more bizarre doc strings. Numpy/Google style here we come . . .