Re: [PATCH] vacuumdb: Add --exclude-database option
Ben Mejia <benjamin.arthur.mejia@gmail.com>
From: Ben Mejia <benjamin.arthur.mejia@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Cc: Mohamed ALi <moali.pg@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-06-16T21:45:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I think that the behavior of this patch that silently ignores --exlcude-database "non-existent-db" is broken. What if someone has a large database "my-db-name", and they misspell it: $ vacuumdb --all --exclude-database "my-dbname" This will kick off a vacuum including the "my-db-name" they were trying to exclude. I think it would be better to generate an error and not do anything in this case. This also tracks with vacuumdb's existing behavior on --table/--schema which will tell you about a typo.