Re: The Contrib Roundup (long) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
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Msg-id 20050613152756.Y90456@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> Silently doing something other than what the user requested ... I
>>> don't think this is the right way to become the most popular open
>>> source database in the world.
>
>> But, we are already doing that, no? :)  I know I'm one that has been
>> bitten by 'DATABASE' != "all tables in the database" :)
>
> But that's what we're trying to fix here --- ie, eliminate surprises.
>
> Perhaps we should follow the precedent of VACUUM: it skips over tables
> you don't have permission to process, but emits a WARNING.

That sounds perfect ...

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