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fix database existence check #463

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46 changes: 29 additions & 17 deletions sqlalchemy_utils/functions/database.py
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def database_exists(url):
def database_exists(url, postgres_db=['postgres', 'template0', 'template1',
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"""Check if a database exists.

:param url: A SQLAlchemy engine URL.
:postgres_db: Only applies to postgres. List of databases to try to connect
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Do this parameter apply to any other databases? In other words does for example Oracle or MSSQL have similar things that a default database should be provided in order to check the existence of another database. If so, we should use some different naming for this.

Furthermore the description of the parameter suggests this parameter is a list of values but the name does not. Either the parameter should be named postgres_databases (or something similar) OR this parameter could be string.

I'm leaning towards the latter option as the end user who is using this function should know which default database to use and just provide that as a string parameter for this function.

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Do this parameter apply to any other databases?

I have no idea. But it seems to be postgres specific (I also found no issue that indicates such a problem for other databases). Still - if desired - I could change the parameter name to databases and indicate in the docs that it currently only applies to postgres.

Furthermore the description of the parameter suggests this parameter is a list of values but the name does not.

I would go for postgres_databases. The list has the advantage will work for many settings automatically.

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Performs backend-specific testing to quickly determine if a database
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url = copy(make_url(url))
database, url.database = url.database, None
engine = sa.create_engine(url)
engine = None
dialect_name = url.get_dialect().name

if engine.dialect.name == 'postgresql':
if dialect_name == 'postgresql':
ret = False
text = "SELECT 1 FROM pg_database WHERE datname='%s'" % database
return bool(get_scalar_result(engine, text))
for pdb in postgres_db:
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url.database = pdb
engine = sa.create_engine(url)
try:
ret = bool(get_scalar_result(engine, text))
except (ProgrammingError, OperationalError):
pass
engine.dispose()
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elif engine.dialect.name == 'mysql':
elif dialect_name == 'mysql':
engine = sa.create_engine(url)
text = ("SELECT SCHEMA_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA "
"WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = '%s'" % database)
return bool(get_scalar_result(engine, text))
ret = bool(get_scalar_result(engine, text))

elif engine.dialect.name == 'sqlite':
elif dialect_name == 'sqlite':
engine = sa.create_engine(url)
if database:
return database == ':memory:' or sqlite_file_exists(database)
ret = database == ':memory:' or sqlite_file_exists(database)
else:
# The default SQLAlchemy database is in memory,
# and :memory is not required, thus we should support that use-case
return True

ret = True
else:
engine.dispose()
engine = None
text = 'SELECT 1'
try:
url.database = database
engine = sa.create_engine(url)
result = engine.execute(text)
result.close()
return True
ret = True

except (ProgrammingError, OperationalError):
return False
finally:
if engine is not None:
engine.dispose()
ret = False

if engine is not None:
engine.dispose()
return ret


def create_database(url, encoding='utf8', template=None):
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