move generation of country tables in own module

nominatim/tools/country_info.py

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+"""
+Functions for importing and managing static country information.
+"""
+from nominatim.db import utils as db_utils
+from nominatim.db.connection import connect
+
+def setup_country_tables(dsn, sql_dir, ignore_partitions=False):
+    """ Create and populate the tables with basic static data that provides
+        the background for geocoding. Data is assumed to not yet exist.
+    """
+    db_utils.execute_file(dsn, sql_dir / 'country_name.sql')
+    db_utils.execute_file(dsn, sql_dir / 'country_osm_grid.sql.gz')
+
+    if ignore_partitions:
+        with connect(dsn) as conn:
+            with conn.cursor() as cur:
+                cur.execute('UPDATE country_name SET partition = 0')
+            conn.commit()