keepdb with flush option

[Brice Parent]

Hi everyone,

Right now, when testing, we have the choice to either :

• create a new empty database to launch the tests with
  
• reuse an existing database with all its data (--keepdb)
  

I think we're missing a third option, here :

• reuse an existing database, but flush its contents before (or after, or both) launching the tests (--flushdb? --keepdb --flush?)
  

The reason for that is that we don't always want to/may give django's db user the ability to create and delete database, but we may still want to start with a fresh one (otherwise, we wouldn't need --keepdb, it would be the normal behaviour). As there's already a management command to flush the db, I don't expect this to be a huge work, but I might be missing something. If there's already a way to do that without creating a custom test runner, thanks for pointing me at it and sorry for your time!

Any thoughts ?

-Brice