How to restore a previously deleted group

Question

I created a group, then deleted it, and now when I want to create it again I get the following error:

The form contains invalid entries:
Name: Group name already exists in database

Digging around I realized I can finally rase it from outside ckan. From a pgadmin3 console I have to delete related records in member_revision, member, group_role and finally group table

But doing so I break all the history in the audit tables, and god knows what else.

Is there some politer way to achieve it?

Answer 1

The quickest (and probably dirtiest) way to do this, assuming your group name is my-group:

update group_revision set state='active' where name='my-group' and current=true;
update group set state='active' where name='my-group';

This should keep the audit intact.