[Django]-Django: safely deleting an unused table from database

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To remove the authtoken tables you may use django’s migration command in the following way:

python manage.py migrate authtoken zero

This will revert all the migrations from the authtoken app, effectively removing the tables from the database (as long as this doesn’t break any constraints).

The zero migration can be used with any installed django app (see relevant django documentation).

After running the zero migration, you may remove the app from INSTALLED_APPS

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You can choose the first option. There are 3 steps should you do to complete uninstall authtoken from your Django app

  1. Remove rest_framework.authtoken from INSTALLED_APPS, this action will tell your Django app to do not take any migrations file from that module
  2. Remove authtoken_token table, if you will
  3. Find the record with authtoken app name in table django_migrations, you can remove it.

Note: There are several error occurs in your code, because authtoken module is removed from your INSTALLED_APPS. My advice, backup your existing database first before you do above step

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