[HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'postgres95/src/bin/destroydb destroydb.sh' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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Subject [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'postgres95/src/bin/destroydb destroydb.sh'
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Msg-id e2c8d2a9bba0b3d0c3bdb1303bd003b7
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > I am including a patch for destroydb to ask for confirmation before
> > deleting databases (after I accidentally deleted mine)...destroydb -y
> > would force delete without any confirmation.
>
> Uh, "destroydb" would seem to be a specific-enough command that if you
> type it, you actually wanted to delete a database :)
>
> Would have preferred that the behavior remained as-is, myself.

    Its too simple to backout (I love CVS *grin*)...anyone else have an
opinion one way or the other?  Its sort of like some systems alias rm -i to
rm...just in case


Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

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