Can't use testing w/out having db creation privileges

[mnbayazit]

You can't run ./manage.py test unless you have CREATE DATABASE privileges. This kind of sucks if you're on a shared server and you can only create databases thru the admin panel, or you're only alloted a few. There's really no reason Django shouldn't allow you to choose one of these manually created databases; then instead of dropping the whole DB after running all the tests, you can just drop the tables.

I'm submitting a patch to show how it can be done, but this is a hack specifically for PostgreSQL.

[mnbayazit]

hack for postgresql to allow choosing test database/username/password

[Jacob]

This is an assumption we need to make to make testing predictable and stable. If it's an assumption that breaks for you, you should look into writing ​a custom test runner.