Re: The Contrib Roundup (long)

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:
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>>> On 6/12/2005 8:03 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>>> Couldn't behaviour of REINDEX DATABASE not take that into account, and 
>>>> 'skip' the system indices if not superuser?
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>>> 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.
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>> 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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