Re: dropdb --force

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Ryan Lambert <ryan@rustprooflabs.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Anthony Nowocien <anowocien@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Filip Rembiałkowski <filip.rembialkowski@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-11-12T05:47:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:57 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a few test cases to test the syntax in
> /src/test/regress/sql/drop_if_exists.sql which I think is not the best
> place to add the tests for this feature as it is primarily testing ..
> IF EXISTS .. syntax.  OTOH, I am not sure if there is any other better
> place to add those.  The other option could be to add a new test file,
> but again I am not sure if it is worth to do so for a few tests.  We
> can even decide not to have tests for this feature as the tests are
> just testing the syntax which I think can help if we want to extend
> the syntax in the future.
>

Today, I again looked at some of the other drop command syntaxes and
it seems some of them like 'Drop Extension ..' are also tested via
this file.  So, I decided to keep the test in this file but changed
the name of the database used in the test to match with other tests in
that file and modified comments.

I am planning to commit this patch tomorrow unless I see more comments
or interest from someone else to review this.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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