I'm running a unit test using the Django framework and get this error.

Running the actual code does not have this problem, running the unit tests creates a test database on the fly so I suspect the issue lies there.

The code that throws the error looks like this

member = Member.objects.get(email=email_address)

and the model looks like

class Member(models.Model):
    member_id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True)
    created_on = models.DateTimeField(editable=False, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow())
    flags = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True)
    country_iso = models.CharField(max_length=6, blank=True)
    location_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    facebook_uid = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    utc_offset = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    tokens = models.CharField(max_length=3000, blank=True)
    class Meta:
        db_table = u'member'

there's nothing too odd there i can see.

the user running the tests has the same permissions to the database server as the user that runs the website

where else can I look to see what's going wrong, why is this table not being created?