Proposal for create/destroy database

There is a common use case of creating/destroying databases, for example when running tests.

Currently there is no support for automating detecting the source database and acting appropriately, for example;

x = SqliteDatabase("file:/tmp/lala.sql", uri=True)
x.create_database() # this would create /tmp/lala.sql
x.destroy_database() # this would unlink /tmp/lala

x = SqliteDatabase(":memory:", uri=True)
x.create_database() # this would create in-memory db space
x.destroy_database() # this would close all connections, thus destroying DB space

x = MySQLDatabase(host='127.0.0.1', database='helloworld')
x.create_database() # this would execute "CREATE DATABASE helloworld;"
x.destroy_database() # this would execute "DROP DATABASE helloworld;"

I’ve got the majority of the above working for Sqlite, however I haven’t done Postgres or MySQL yet.

If this was put forward as a well formed PR, would this sort of functionality be accepted into the core, or playhouse?

[coleifer]

I’ve always felt that this type of thing did not belong as a part of peewee. I will pass on this feature.

[savraj]

for future MySQL readers, the way I chose to do this (after ending up here) was this:

    db = MySQLdb.connect(host='', user='', passwd='')
    c = db.cursor()
    c.execute("drop database %s" % db_name)