Re: BUG #10823: Better REINDEX syntax.

On 07/30/2014 07:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:29:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>> On Tue, Jul  1, 2014 at 10:33:07AM +0000, dmigowski@ikoffice.de wrote:
>>>> Compared to CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL we need to specify a database to the
>>>> REINDEX command. Why? It would be logical to reindex the current database,
>>>> exactly like CLUSTER does. So why isn't the DATABASE parameter optional?
>>
>>> Wow, yeah, that is kind of odd, e.g.
>>
>> I don't find it all that odd.  We should not be encouraging routine
>> database-wide reindexes.
>
> Uh, do we encourage database-wide VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, as we use them
> there with no parameter.  Is there a reason REINDEX should be harder,
> and require a dummy argument to run?

I agree.  The request isn't for a naked REINDEX command, it's for a
naked REINDEX DATABASE command.
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