diff -r ebaad720f88b -r 526ebd3988b0 web/lib/django_extensions/management/commands/reset_db.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/web/lib/django_extensions/management/commands/reset_db.py	Wed Jan 20 12:37:40 2010 +0100
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+"""
+originally from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/828/ by dnordberg
+"""
+
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.management.base import CommandError, BaseCommand
+from django.db import connection
+import logging
+from optparse import make_option
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + (
+        make_option('--noinput', action='store_false',
+                    dest='interactive', default=True,
+                    help='Tells Django to NOT prompt the user for input of any kind.'),
+        make_option('--no-utf8', action='store_true',
+                    dest='no_utf8_support', default=False,
+                    help='Tells Django to not create a UTF-8 charset database'),
+    )
+    help = "Resets the database for this project."
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        """
+        Resets the database for this project.
+    
+        Note: Transaction wrappers are in reverse as a work around for
+        autocommit, anybody know how to do this the right way?
+        """
+
+        if options.get('interactive'):
+            confirm = raw_input("""
+You have requested a database reset.
+This will IRREVERSIBLY DESTROY
+ALL data in the database "%s".
+Are you sure you want to do this?
+
+Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: """ % (settings.DATABASE_NAME,))
+        else:
+            confirm = 'yes'
+
+        if confirm != 'yes':
+            print "Reset cancelled."
+            return
+
+        engine = settings.DATABASE_ENGINE
+    
+        if engine == 'sqlite3':
+            import os
+            try:
+                logging.info("Unlinking sqlite3 database")
+                os.unlink(settings.DATABASE_NAME)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+        elif engine == 'mysql':
+            import MySQLdb as Database
+            kwargs = {
+                'user': settings.DATABASE_USER,
+                'passwd': settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD,
+            }
+            if settings.DATABASE_HOST.startswith('/'):
+                kwargs['unix_socket'] = settings.DATABASE_HOST
+            else:
+                kwargs['host'] = settings.DATABASE_HOST
+            if settings.DATABASE_PORT:
+                kwargs['port'] = int(settings.DATABASE_PORT)
+            connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
+            drop_query = 'DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS %s' % settings.DATABASE_NAME
+            utf8_support = options.get('no_utf8_support', False) and '' or 'CHARACTER SET utf8'
+            create_query = 'CREATE DATABASE %s %s' % (settings.DATABASE_NAME, utf8_support)
+            logging.info('Executing... "' + drop_query + '"')
+            connection.query(drop_query)
+            logging.info('Executing... "' + create_query + '"')
+            connection.query(create_query)
+        elif engine == 'postgresql' or engine == 'postgresql_psycopg2':
+            if engine == 'postgresql':
+                import psycopg as Database
+            elif engine == 'postgresql_psycopg2':
+                import psycopg2 as Database
+            
+            if settings.DATABASE_NAME == '':
+                from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+                raise ImproperlyConfigured, "You need to specify DATABASE_NAME in your Django settings file."
+            
+            conn_string = "dbname=%s" % settings.DATABASE_NAME
+            if settings.DATABASE_USER:
+                conn_string += " user=%s" % settings.DATABASE_USER
+            if settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD:
+                conn_string += " password='%s'" % settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD
+            if settings.DATABASE_HOST:
+                conn_string += " host=%s" % settings.DATABASE_HOST
+            if settings.DATABASE_PORT:
+                conn_string += " port=%s" % settings.DATABASE_PORT
+            connection = Database.connect(conn_string)
+            connection.set_isolation_level(0) #autocommit false
+            cursor = connection.cursor()
+            drop_query = 'DROP DATABASE %s' % settings.DATABASE_NAME
+            logging.info('Executing... "' + drop_query + '"')
+    
+            try:
+                cursor.execute(drop_query)
+            except Database.ProgrammingError, e:
+                logging.info("Error: "+str(e))
+    
+            # Encoding should be SQL_ASCII (7-bit postgres default) or prefered UTF8 (8-bit)
+            create_query = ("""
+CREATE DATABASE %s
+    WITH OWNER = %s
+        ENCODING = 'UTF8'
+        TABLESPACE = pg_default;
+""" % (settings.DATABASE_NAME, settings.DATABASE_USER))
+            logging.info('Executing... "' + create_query + '"')
+            cursor.execute(create_query)
+    
+        else:
+            raise CommandError, "Unknown database engine %s", engine
+    
+        print "Reset successful."