How to reset db in Django? I get a command 'reset' not found error
Following this Django by Example tutotrial here: http://lightbird.net/dbe/todo_list.html
The tutorial says:
"This changes our table layout and we’ll have to ask Django to reset and recreate tables:
manage.py reset todo; manage.py syncdb"
though, when I run manage.py reset todo, I get the error:
$ python manage.py reset todo
- Unknown command: 'reset'
Is this because I am using sqlite3 and not postgresql?
Can somebody tell me what the command is to reset the database?
The command: python manage.py sqlclear todo returns the error:
$ python manage.py sqlclear todo
CommandError: App with label todo could not be found.
Are you sure your INSTALLED_APPS setting is correct?
So I added 'todo' to my INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py, and ran python manage.py sqlclear todo again, resulting in this error:
$ python manage.py sqlclear todo
- NameError: name 'admin' is not defined
Solution 1:
reset has been replaced by flush with Django 1.5, see:
python manage.py help flush
Solution 2:
It looks like the 'flush' answer will work for some, but not all cases. I needed not just to flush the values in the database, but to recreate the tables properly. I'm not using migrations yet (early days) so I really needed to drop all the tables.
Two ways I've found to drop all tables, both require something other than core django.
If you're on Heroku, drop all the tables with pg:reset:
heroku pg:reset DATABASE_URL
heroku run python manage.py syncdb
If you can install Django Extensions, it has a way to do a complete reset:
python ./manage.py reset_db --router=default
Solution 3:
Similar to LisaD's answer, Django Extensions has a great reset_db command that totally drops everything, instead of just truncating the tables like "flush" does.
python ./manage.py reset_db
Merely flushing the tables wasn't fixing a persistent error that occurred when I was deleting objects. Doing a reset_db fixed the problem.