From 68621a4a923ad9569cc53dc355079e4098956007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:30:27 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] use AI to redo MariaDB reinit

---
 databaseReset.py | 46 +++++++++++++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/databaseReset.py b/databaseReset.py
index 821ee61..53d9d64 100644
--- a/databaseReset.py
+++ b/databaseReset.py
@@ -119,39 +119,19 @@ def reinit_db():
         else:
             print(" - No database file found: " + currentdbname + " ..continuing, will create it.\n")
     else:
-        print(f" - Attempting to nuke : {currentdbname}\n")
-        # this is now completely failing to nuke MariaDB adequately, and it crashes when creating Area objects with a no null parent message
-        # when null parents are explciitly allowed in the model.
-        cursor = django.db.connection.cursor()
-        print(f" - - Using {cursor}")
-        try:
-            cursor.execute(f"DROP DATABASE {currentdbname}")
-        except:
-            print(f" - - Exception when attempting to: DROP DATABASE {currentdbname} with {cursor}")
-            pass
-        try:
-            cursor.execute(f"CREATE DATABASE {currentdbname}")
-        except:
-            print(f" - - Exception when attempting to: CREATE DATABASE {currentdbname} with {cursor}")
-            pass
-        try:
-            cursor.execute(f"ALTER DATABASE {currentdbname} CHARACTER SET=utf8")
-        except:
-            print(f" - - Exception when attempting to: ALTER DATABASE {currentdbname} CHARACTER SET=utf8")
-            pass
-        try:
-            cursor.execute(f"USE {currentdbname}")
-        except:
-            print(f" - - Exception when attempting to: USE {currentdbname}")
-            pass
-        try:
-            cmd = flush.Command()
-            call_command(cmd, verbosity=0, interactive=False)
-        except:
-            print(f" - - Exception when attempting to: FLUSH")
-            pass
-        print(f" - Nuked : {currentdbname}\n")
-
+        print(f" - Attempting to drop all tables in: {currentdbname}\n")
+        with django.db.connection.cursor() as cursor:
+            print(f" - - Using {cursor}")
+            # Disable foreign key checks so we can drop tables in any order
+            cursor.execute("SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;")
+            # Get all table names
+            cursor.execute("SHOW TABLES;")
+            tables = [row[0] for row in cursor.fetchall()]
+            for table in tables:
+                print(f"   - Dropping table: {table}")
+                cursor.execute(f"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `{table}`;")
+            cursor.execute("SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;")
+        print(f" - All tables dropped in: {currentdbname}\n")
     print(" - Migrating: " + django.db.connections.databases["default"]["NAME"])
 
     if django.db.connections.databases["default"]["ENGINE"] == "django.db.backends.sqlite3":