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[Enhancement]: Support running init script against a specific database
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Description
Module
PostgreSQL
Proposal
new PostgreSQLContainer<>("postgres").withInitScript("init.sql");
init.sql
CREATE DATABASE example;
\c example
CREATE SCHEMA example;
does not work because the Postgres JDBC driver does not support the \c psql meta-command to switch databases.
This is similar to #7680 and its predecessors #2578, #1997, and #2232.
But in this use case one would would need to specify the database in addition to the init script path.
Something along the lines of:
new PostgreSQLContainer<>("postgres")
.withInitScript("createDatabase.sql") // CREATE DATABASE example;
.withInitScriptForDatabase("example", "createSchema.sql"); // CREATE SCHEMA example;
new PostgreSQLContainer<>("postgres")
.withInitScript("createDatabases.sql") // CREATE DATABASE example1; CREATE DATABASE example2;
.withInitScriptForDatabase("example1", "createExample1Schema.sql"); // CREATE SCHEMA example1;
.withInitScriptForDatabase("example2", "createExample2Schema.sql"); // CREATE SCHEMA example2;
Note:
new PostgreSQLContainer<>("postgres")
.withDatabaseName("example")
...;
will auto-create the example database but the DDL above would be in reality more complex like:
CREATE DATABASE example WITH OWNER example_admin TEMPLATE template0
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the PostgreSQL container's existing init-script behavior and the related issues #7680, #2578, #1997, and #2232. Define how scripts target named databases despite the JDBC driver's lack of psql meta-command support; done means the proposed API can create databases and run each schema script against its specified database.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, postgresql
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100