Fixed #22293 -- Avoided renaming many-to-many tables to themselves.

Fixed this for both implementations of _alter_many_to_many, instead of
in `alter_db_table` itself (more implementations).

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/schema/tests.py b/tests/schema/tests.py
index 3eb826cee4..57c344ce8d 100644
--- a/tests/schema/tests.py
+++ b/tests/schema/tests.py
@@ -347,6 +347,15 @@ class SchemaTests(TransactionTestCase):
             # Ensure there is now an m2m table there
             columns = self.column_classes(new_field.rel.through)
             self.assertEqual(columns['tagm2mtest_id'][0], "IntegerField")
+
+            # "Alter" the field. This should not rename the DB table to itself.
+            with connection.schema_editor() as editor:
+                editor.alter_field(
+                    Author,
+                    new_field,
+                    new_field,
+                )
+
             # Remove the M2M table again
             with connection.schema_editor() as editor:
                 editor.remove_field(