Tom Lane wrote: > "Hamid Quddus Akhtar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
