[williamdclt]

DELETE is faster on a small amount of data.

But yea, DELETEing is faster than creating a DB from template (depends on how much you have to delete, of course). However, templates allow parallelism by giving its test its own database. I ended up doing a mix of both: create a DB if there's not one available, or reuse one if available, always tearing down data.

[eddd-ddde]

TRUNCATE is faster than DELETE. You could have 100 dbs, each test first acquires one, runs, truncates, releases. No need to create more dbs on the fly.