#14296: 'manage.py test' failing for apps that access read-only databases
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Reporter: kthhrv | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Testing framework | Version: 1.2
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by Carl Marshall):
* status: closed => new
* resolution: needsinfo =>
Comment:
I'd like to add some more to this again as I'm having this problem with
Django 2.1.
I have some large Oracle DBs which are read only, and my app is providing
an API to. All my models are set to be `managed=False`, and I've set the
databases to have:
{{{
'TEST': {
'CREATE_DB': False,
'CREATE_USER': False,
'USER': env('DATABASE_USER_DEV'),
'PASSWORD': env('DATABASE_PASSWORD_DEV'),
}
}}}
However, running `python manage.py test` results in
`django.db.migrations.exceptions.MigrationSchemaMissing: Unable to create
the django_migrations table (ORA-02000: missing ALWAYS keyword)` which
suggests to me that we need a "read-only" database option that will stop
all attempts to generate data on these connections.
For reference, the app uses a local sqlite or postgress DB for the data it
can store (and the standard Django apps) as the default database, but
there is no scope to be able to get write access to these external
databases, or have them duplicated for testing in any meaningful way (and
I understand Russell Keith-Mageen concern about live data in tests).
I'm not sure what the best solution here would be, for example:
* Using Create DB as False doesn't always mean you can't test the database
* Tests need to look for any table on the database that is managed, if
none found, treat as read-only (seems like an expensive option)
* Have a READ_ONLY test flag that would cause the standard tests to skip
some of the write based tests
The main output I want is to be able to run my tests (including the
standard ones from Django and other packages) without the early
termination of the test script because of the migrations exception.
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