The problem of syncing the schema to the orm is a tough one to solve indeed. Good to see that rails will get it right. Django with South has the same issue, so

The problem of syncing the schema to the orm is a tough one to solve indeed. Good to see that rails will get it right. Django with South has the same issue, so much so that South preventatively overrides the native manage.py syncdb command with its own migrate command which replays all the migrations.