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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 13:23:18 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kurilemu.de; s=schmee; t=1765218196; bh=DU10neVt3xcnTrihun0naWw/atNldLdXfQzphq6G8IM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:From; b=wiiKwDvUs5jpl390XAqAV8d2iPSzsvGPDsP7AHPML8SJHk6F2NrtLvCskRJELhNxf QVtQc0c4j6dvjoWLHdFsWEuzt7T+eXJjC+iKbzEpEnabRx1ehjvVZUWGvQL112EXk+ j+KTmbohBGazPGobshC6wAUkepgxbhz7JJ2a6tfOgnRS0WtMSlkYLCMi42nujHcW+v mhbrojaAcCtolGlInUmp+Ju5yYVzBZCHPrMUlzVvJbslJ72NZRY5XrTX5uvLbxAZn5 DZZPg8DCUSk+DRveccRFNy/mSUmRuK0KUAEllSrYDVUA6VJSvhpn1XM7kJWIh6AB9q J/uyW8wLVmYjQ== Received: by schmee.kurilemu.internal (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE6007B; Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:23:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 19:23:16 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera To: Nathan Bossart Cc: Chao Li , Corey Huinker , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: vacuumdb: add --dry-run Message-ID: <202512081821.lruaedzh3qkr@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 2025-Dec-08, Nathan Bossart wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 07:48:22AM +0800, Chao Li wrote: > > ``` > > + if (vacopts.dry_run) > > + pg_log_info("Executing in dry-run mode.”); > > ``` > > > > Feels like “Running” is better than “Executing”. > > Done. I haven't read this thread, but chanced to come across this and wanted to note recent commit c05dee191125. I'm not opposed to changing what went in there, but let's make them all the same. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/