db_configure now checks database name

Details

Detail name Value
Changelog Number 21222
Type Improvement
Status Resolved
Fix Versions Exasol 8.29.0
Resolution Date 2024-07-12

Background

ConfD job db_configure allows user to modify some database settings (see link).

Previously, db_configure did not check the validity of db_name argument for some of change types and would fail with an obscure internal error later.

Improvement

db_configure now verifies that the given db_name actually exists, and fails with a descriptive error message for the user otherwise.