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

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
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Msg-id 42AEC947.6010403@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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On 6/13/2005 2:29 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 6/12/2005 8:03 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Couldn't behaviour of REINDEX DATABASE not take that into account, and 
>>>>> 'skip' the system indices if not superuser?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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" :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>> If we are, then we should stop.
> 
> sorry, I wasn't advocating that we do so, just pointing out that we were 
> ... I like Tom's suggestion of following our VACUUM precedent, where we do 
> skip, but warn that we are doing so ...

That is a perfectly fine compromise. Do what's possible but warn the 
user that not all she asked for has been accomplished.


Jan

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