Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-17T14:41:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On fre, 2011-01-14 at 18:45 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
> wrote:
> > There's a similar case with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS, maybe this
> is
> > worth covering in an updated patch too?
> > And if I change that, people might expect the same from DROP X IF
> EXISTS too?
> 
> It's far less clear what you'd change those cases to say, and they
> already emit a NOTICE, so it seems unnecessary.

Maybe instead of the proposed patch, a notice could be added:

NOTICE: existing object was replaced