On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:



Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:

On 6/12/2005 8:03 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Couldn't behaviour of REINDEX DATABASE not take that into account, and 'skip' the system indices if not superuser?


Silently doing something other than what the user requested ... I don't think this is the right way to become the most popular open source database in the world.


But, we are already doing that, no? :) I know I'm one that has been bitten by 'DATABASE' != "all tables in the database" :)



If we are, then we should stop.

sorry, I wasn't advocating that we do so, just pointing out that we were ... I like Tom's suggestion of following our VACUUM precedent, where we do skip, but warn that we are doing so ...

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