I got this error over and over. I was using a schema_filter setting in Symfony, and that was the source of the problem. This Laravel user had a similar problem: https://github.com/laravel-doctrine/migrations/issues/35#issuecomment-249512155 It’s due to schema_filter. The schema filter docs give an example where they use a negative assertion to exclude tables that match a regex. … Continue reading Symfony, Doctrine: An exception occurred while executing ‘CREATE TABLE migration_versions