Re: dropdb --force

On 2019-Sep-26, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> Alternative is DROP DATABASE [IF EXISTS] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] [ WITH
> FORCE ]
> 
> but in this case WIDTH keyword should not be optional (If I need to solve
> Tom's note). Currently WITH keyword is optional every where, so I think so
> using syntax with required WIDTH keyword is not happy.

Well, you would have one of those:

DROP DATABASE [IF EXISTS] name WITH (FORCE)
DROP DATABASE [IF EXISTS] name

Naturally, the WITH is optional in the sense that the clause itself is
optional.  (Note we don't have CASCADE/RESTRICT in DROP DATABASE.)

You propose

DROP DATABASE (FORCE) [IF EXISTS] name

which seems weird to me -- I think only legacy syntax uses that form.

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