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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"provide 'standard' mechanism for database schema name selection (database.prefix?)","articleBody":"We have been discussing the use of ‘configurable’ database strings for testing purposes in schema development work -\r\n\r\nOne useful mechanism to use is a ‘database prefix’ - a string which is prepended to the ‘common’ name of a database schema - for example:\r\n```\r\nprefix = ‘my_test_’\r\ndbname = ‘database’\r\n```\r\n-\u003e application code will use: `‘my_test_database’`\r\n\r\nIn the codebases where this pattern has been applied, we have implemented this mechanism via:\r\n```\r\nschema = dj.schema(dj.config.get('database.prefix', '') + 'database')\r\n```\r\nSo, wondering if it would make sense to standardize this mechanism in some way since it is useful for schema development/testing and other uses - either directly in the `dj.schema` logic or some other means (utility function, etc)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ixcat","@type":"Person","name":"ixcat"},"datePublished":"2018-09-19T20:05:24.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/490/datajoint-python/issues/490"}