how to reflect changes made on postgres database of django from one pc to other

Question

We three working with Django and postgres is the database. Whenever we push the code to GitHub. The database data is not reflecting. The data I stored is visible to me only. The postgres user, password and database name are same on all our laptops. How to make when I push that has to go their databases also.

your postgresql database should be on server instead of local machines to reflect data on each laptop. where is you postgresql runnning? — Raghav Sharma

Eugene Prikazchikov Eugene Prikazchikov · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-21T12:42:59

If you are talking about changes in db schema, then take a look django migrations - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/migrations/. The workflow is following:

change model (e.g. add new field, change existing field...)
generate migration file by running python manage.py makemigrations. This generates migration file in <app_folder>/migrations
Run python manage.py migrate to apply changes in models to your database
Add migration file to your version control (github or whaever) and push it

Now when your colleagues gets updated code from version control they need to run python manage.py migrate to apply model changes to their local database.

how to reflect changes made on postgres database of django from one pc to other

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