reset_db: OperationalError: cannot drop the currently open database

#73 was marked as closed with the instruction to reopen if the issue still exists.

I ran into the issue today with the latest form PIP using a postgresql database with the following in settings.py:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': '***_db',
        'USER': '***_admin',
        'PASSWORD': '***',
    }
}

running the following command:

$ python manage.py reset_db --router=default

You have requested a database reset.
This will IRREVERSIBLY DESTROY
ALL data in the database "diyatm_db".
Are you sure you want to do this?

Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes
OperationalError: cannot drop the currently open database

[artscoop]

For the record, I could locate what was causing the lock at the time: it was a call to django.core.urlresolvers.reverse in middleware that is to say, nothing to do with the database.

Now the lock is happening again, and I cannot find what is causing it in my project. Maybe django_extensions could “force-drop” active connections before resetting ?

[camilonova]

ok, then is not an issue.