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Re: dropdb --force

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Ryan Lambert <ryan@rustprooflabs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2019-09-26T16:34:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2019-09-26 17:35, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.)

The WITH here seems weird to me.  Why not leave it out?

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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