Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, kar(at)kakidata(dot)dk, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)
Date: 2005-06-13 18:29:06
Message-ID: 20050613152827.L90456@ganymede.hub.org
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> 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" :)
>>
>>
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> 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 ...

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