flask - sqlalchemy postgresql enum does not create type on db migrate

Question

I develop a web-app using Flask under Python3. I have a problem with postgresql enum type on db migrate/upgrade.

I added a column "status" to model:

class Banner(db.Model):
    ...
    status = db.Column(db.Enum('active', 'inactive', 'archive', name='banner_status'))
    ...

Generated migration by python manage.py db migrate is:

from alembic import op
import sqlalchemy as sa

def upgrade():
    op.add_column('banner', sa.Column('status', sa.Enum('active', 'inactive', 'archive', name='banner_status'), nullable=True))

def downgrade():
    op.drop_column('banner', 'status')

And when I do python manage.py db upgrade I get an error:

...
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.ProgrammingError) type "banner_status" does not exist
LINE 1: ALTER TABLE banner ADD COLUMN status banner_status

 [SQL: 'ALTER TABLE banner ADD COLUMN status banner_status']

Why migration does not create a type "banner_status"?

What am I doing wrong?

$ pip freeze
alembic==0.8.6
Flask==0.10.1
Flask-Fixtures==0.3.3
Flask-Login==0.3.2
Flask-Migrate==1.8.0
Flask-Script==2.0.5
Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.1
itsdangerous==0.24
Jinja2==2.8
Mako==1.0.4
MarkupSafe==0.23
psycopg2==2.6.1
python-editor==1.0
requests==2.10.0
SQLAlchemy==1.0.13
Werkzeug==0.11.9

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37848815/sqlalchemy-postgresql-enum-does-not-create-type-on-db-migrate

Answer 1

I decided this problem using that.

I changed code of migration and migration is look like this:

from alembic import op
import sqlalchemy as sa
from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql

def upgrade():
    banner_status = postgresql.ENUM('active', 'inactive', 'archive', name='banner_status')
    banner_status.create(op.get_bind())

    op.add_column('banner', sa.Column('status', sa.Enum('active', 'inactive', 'archive', name='banner_status'), nullable=True))

def downgrade():
    op.drop_column('banner', 'status')

    banner_status = postgresql.ENUM('active', 'inactive', 'archive', name='banner_status')
    banner_status.drop(op.get_bind())

And now python manage.py db upgradedowngrade is succesfully executed.