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Re: dropdb --force

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Filip Rembiałkowski <filip.rembialkowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-12-18T16:23:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 01:25:32PM +0100, Filip Rembiałkowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I propose a simple patch (works-for-me), which adds --force (-f)
> option to dropdb utility.

Nice!

I did something like this in user space back in 2010.

https://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/63-Kick-em-out,-and-keep-em-out!.html

so there appears to be interest in such a feature.

Best,
David.
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Commits

  1. Add tests for '-f' option in dropdb utility.

  2. Move pump_until to TestLib.pm.

  3. Add the support for '-f' option in dropdb utility.

  4. Introduce the 'force' option for the Drop Database command.

  5. Improve CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE so that when failing because the source