Django 1.7 Long Migrations Never Ends

I'm using django 1.7 with a MySQL DB. I'm trying to run a migration that deletes a column from a table with 500K rows. When running the migration it hangs for an infinite amount of

Solution 1:

this seems not to be the desired behavior. Please point this to the Django-users mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-users

Or open a ticket at: https://code.djangoproject.com/query

Django 1.7 is freshly released and I know that the migrations are one of the most complicated changes they've made in this release.

Sorry that I can't help you immediately.

Cheers