'There is 1 other session using the database.'

When I run: python manage.py behave

Django begins preparing for tests, but throws this error. behave-django appears to be complaining about it’s own connection to the database (or Django is complaining about behave-djangos use of the database). Have any ideas what’s going on here?

Python 2.7 Django 1.9.8

Thanks.

[dmwyatt]

I can’t remember if this is the solution to the problem I had when I originally commented on this issue, but I came across this issue again in my Googlin’ and this time I have a solution to a very similar issue…or maybe even the same issue.

Add conn_max_age=0 to your database configuration in tests. I figured this out from this answer on SO.

[dmwyatt]

I decided to look into this issue after just dealing with it for what seems like years.

What happens is that the tests run fine, but fail to delete the test database because of the other session(s) using database error. If you run the tests again, django prompts you to delete the test database before continuing. This is how I’ve always just dealt with it in the past.

All of my regular Django tests work fine, it is only tests run with behave-django that exhibit this issue.

• Django 2.1.4
• behave-django 1.1.0
• PostgreSQL 10.1

I’ll try and remember to come up with a minimal reproducing project soon.