AW: REINDEX VERBOSE DATABASE not working

Hello David

Yes, I did read the thread. However, I still don’t see the advantage of running:

REINDEX ( VERBOSE ) DATABASE xxx;

Instead of:

REINDEX VERBOSE DATABASE xxx;

And coming back to the TAB completion thing, which is a fantastic feature, by the way, does not show you the option
which comes in parentheses. I don’t know if this is by design or not.

>REINDEX [TAB] [TAB]
DATABASE INDEX SCHEMA SYSTEM TABLE

I would expect with the current syntax implementation:

>REINDEX [TAB] [TAB]
(VERBOSE) DATABASE INDEX SCHEMA SYSTEM TABLE

Nevertheless, thanks everyone.

I think I will switch to the command line tool reindexdb. ;-) This one is more intuitive from my point of view:

reindexdb --verbose --dbname=xxx

Cheers,
William

Von: David G. Johnston [mailto:david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2019 22:33
An: Sescu William (SW0) <william(dot)sescu(at)suva(dot)ch>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Betreff: REINDEX VERBOSE DATABASE not working

On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, William Sescu (Suva) <william(dot)sescu(at)suva(dot)ch<mailto:william(dot)sescu(at)suva(dot)ch>> wrote:
Thanks for clarification. The REINDEX (VERBOSE) DATABASE xxx; works.
However, the syntax is not intuitive, from my point of view.
Would it not be possible to allow 2 options. One with (VERBOSE) for backward compatibility and one with VERBOSE

Its possible but such a patch would never be committed (did you read the email thread?). Intuitiveness isn’t a huge concern here. Especially for a command that isn’t intended to be run manually often.

The learning curve for PostgreSQL includes knowing where to find command syntax and how to read it. Its a complex language that is constantly being added to.

David J.

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