Can't DROP COLUMN SelectSeries, migration failing #7098
Description
I am experiencing a migration failure consistently now after updating a database from v7.11.0 directly to main.
Possibly related to #6942
django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1091, "Can't DROP COLUMN SelectSeries; check that it exists")
When running docker compose up --build locally in a new copy of the naturkundemuseum database, I get the following:
2025-07-16 09:26:20 Updating static files in /volumes/static-files/.
2025-07-16 09:26:20 Applying Django migrations.
2025-07-16 09:26:24 Operations to perform:
2025-07-16 09:26:24 Apply all migrations: accounts, attachment_gw, auth, businessrules, contenttypes, notifications, patches, permissions, sessions, specify, workbench
2025-07-16 09:26:24 Running migrations:
2025-07-16 09:27:35 Applying specify.0032_add_quantities_gift... OK
2025-07-16 09:27:35 Applying specify.0033_update_paleo_desc... OK
2025-07-16 09:27:51 Applying specify.0034_accession_date_fields... OK
2025-07-16 09:30:04 Applying specify.0035_version_required... OK
2025-07-16 09:30:04 Applying patches.0004_add_title_tree_rank_fix... OK
2025-07-16 09:30:05 Applying patches.0005_chrono_start_end... OK
2025-07-16 09:31:43 Applying patches.0006_version_fix... OK
2025-07-16 09:31:43 Traceback (most recent call last):
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 89, in _execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 75, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 206, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 res = self._query(query)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 319, in _query
2025-07-16 09:31:43 db.query(q)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 254, in query
2025-07-16 09:31:43 _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 MySQLdb.OperationalError: (1091, "Can't DROP COLUMN `SelectSeries`; check that it exists")
2025-07-16 09:31:43
2025-07-16 09:31:43 The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
2025-07-16 09:31:43
2025-07-16 09:31:43 Traceback (most recent call last):
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/manage.py", line 25, in <module>
2025-07-16 09:31:43 execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
2025-07-16 09:31:43 utility.execute()
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 436, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 412, in run_from_argv
2025-07-16 09:31:43 self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 458, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 output = self.handle(*args, **options)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 106, in wrapper
2025-07-16 09:31:43 res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 356, in handle
2025-07-16 09:31:43 post_migrate_state = executor.migrate(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 135, in migrate
2025-07-16 09:31:43 state = self._migrate_all_forwards(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 167, in _migrate_all_forwards
2025-07-16 09:31:43 state = self.apply_migration(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 252, in apply_migration
2025-07-16 09:31:43 state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 132, in apply
2025-07-16 09:31:43 operation.database_forwards(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/operations/fields.py", line 170, in database_forwards
2025-07-16 09:31:43 schema_editor.remove_field(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 767, in remove_field
2025-07-16 09:31:43 self.execute(sql)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 201, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 cursor.execute(sql, params)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 102, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return super().execute(sql, params)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 67, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self._execute_with_wrappers(
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 80, in _execute_with_wrappers
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return executor(sql, params, many, context)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 89, in _execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 91, in __exit__
2025-07-16 09:31:43 raise dj_exc_value.with_traceback(traceback) from exc_value
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 89, in _execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 75, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 206, in execute
2025-07-16 09:31:43 res = self._query(query)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 319, in _query
2025-07-16 09:31:43 db.query(q)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 File "/opt/specify7/ve/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 254, in query
2025-07-16 09:31:43 _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
2025-07-16 09:31:43 django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1091, "Can't DROP COLUMN `SelectSeries`; check that it exists")
2025-07-16 09:31:47 Watching for file changes with StatReloader