Re: dropdb --force

čt 26. 9. 2019 v 17:35 odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
napsal:

> 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.
>

I have not strong opinion about it, little bit prefer option list after
DROP DATABASE, because it is some what I know from EXPLAIN ANALYZE daily
work, but it is not too important. Your proposed syntax is ok.

Second patch implements Alvaro's proposed syntax.

Pavel


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