On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:29:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:33:07AM +0000, dmigowski@ikoffice.de wrote:
> >> Compared to CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL we need to specify a database to the
> >> REINDEX command. Why? It would be logical to reindex the current database,
> >> exactly like CLUSTER does. So why isn't the DATABASE parameter optional?
>
> > Wow, yeah, that is kind of odd, e.g.
>
> I don't find it all that odd. We should not be encouraging routine
> database-wide reindexes.
Uh, do we encourage database-wide VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, as we use them
there with no parameter. Is there a reason REINDEX should be harder,
and require a dummy argument to run?
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