Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'postgres95/src/bin/destroydb destroydb.sh'

On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > I am including a patch for destroydb to ask for confirmation before
> > > deleting databases (after I accidentally deleted mine)...destroydb -y
> > > would force delete without any confirmation.
> >
> > Uh, "destroydb" would seem to be a specific-enough command that if you
> > type it, you actually wanted to delete a database :)
> >
> > Would have preferred that the behavior remained as-is, myself.
>
>     Its too simple to backout (I love CVS *grin*)...anyone else have an
> opinion one way or the other?  Its sort of like some systems alias rm -i to
> rm...just in case

Having had to restore entire systems because someone typed "rm -r abc *"
instead of "rm -r abc*", I'd put the confirmation in. IE. it's not that
you didn't mean to type "destroydb", but whether you get the database name
correct or not. How often does someone destroy a database anyway that a
confirmation makes it more of a pain?

Why not provide a command line flag to override confirmation for those
who might call destroydb from a script.

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