I have a script which cleans the database, and this is widely used in our tests.
First, we tried to use SQLAlchemy Metadata.drop_all() thing, but it didn't resolve some foreign keys on deletion, which caused errors. Then, I found this script from @zzzeek, which does almost the same, but in a "smart" way. It handles all the issues with foreign keys, but now there are several issues regarding changed custom types (ENUMs). The question is, how can I drop them all them using SQLAlchemy? Execute DROP TYPE by hand only?
Tables in database are created with Alembic, and even while script above deletes all tables successfully, some custom ENUMs are still there and everything fails on attempt to recreate them.
Recreating the whole database is not a preferred solution, because default DB user for application shouldn't normally have rights to create databases.