Re: dropdb --force

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ryan Lambert <ryan(at)rustprooflabs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Anthony Nowocien <anowocien(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Filip Rembiałkowski <filip(dot)rembialkowski(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: dropdb --force
Date: 2019-10-04 16:24:03
Message-ID: CAFj8pRC6jDXWekOOzWwQvgppm985QukHBcrOmtABfL+App4tTg@mail.gmail.com
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čt 3. 10. 2019 v 19:48 odesílatel vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 10:21 PM Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for careful review. I hope so all issues are out.
> >
> >
> Thanks Pavel for fixing the comments.
> Few comments:
> The else part cannot be hit in DropDatabase function as gram.y expects
> FORCE.
> +
> + if (strcmp(opt->defname, "force") == 0)
> + force = true;
> + else
> + ereport(ERROR,
> + (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
> + errmsg("unrecognized DROP DATABASE option \"%s\"", opt->defname),
> + parser_errposition(pstate, opt->location)));
> + }
> +
>

I know - but somebody can call DropDatabase function outside parser. So is
better check all possibilities.

> We should change gram.y to accept any keyword and throw error from
> DropDatabase function.
> + */
> +drop_option: FORCE
> + {
> + $$ = makeDefElem("force", NULL, @1);
> + }
> + ;
>

I spent some time with thinking about it, and I think so this variant (with
keyword) is well readable and very illustrative. This will be lost with
generic variant.

When the keyword FORCE already exists, then I prefer current state.

>
> "This will also fail" should be "This will fail"
> + <para>
> + This will fail, if current user has no permissions to terminate
> other
> + connections. Required permissions are the same as with
> + <literal>pg_terminate_backend</literal>, described
> + in <xref linkend="functions-admin-signal"/>.
> +
> + This will also fail if we are not able to terminate connections or
> + when there are active prepared transactions or active logical
> replication
> + slots.
> + </para>
>

fixed

>
> Can we add few tests for this feature.
>

there are not any other test for DROP DATABASE

We can check syntax later inside second patch (for -f option of dropdb
command)

Regards

Pavel

>
> Regards,
> Vignesh
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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