Re: Crash with empty dictionary

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Hamid Quddus Akhtar" <hamid.akhtar@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >> Offhand I'd say that an empty file is a legitimate corner case,
> >> so we should just take it silently.
> 
> > Shouldn't we be warning about an empty file rather than just swallowing 
> > up the error?
> 
> You are jumping to a conclusion, namely that it is an error.  If it's
> a legitimate corner case, throwing a warning every time the file is
> read would be incredibly annoying.
> 
> If it's not a legitimate case, then we should throw a real error.
> A warning just strikes me as the worst of both worlds.

A zero-length file seems fine to me in this case.

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