Re: Crash with empty dictionary

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is a sane way to set up a dictionary, but surely
>> seg faulting is not the right thing to do. Should we throw an error on
>> an empty dict file, or should we swallow it without crashing?
>>
>
> Offhand I'd say that an empty file is a legitimate corner case,
> so we should just take it silently.
>
> regards, tom lane
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Shouldn't we be warning about an empty file rather than just swallowing
up the error? It might not be intentional and rather than the user
trying to figure it out, we should at least be informing him/her...

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Hamid