Re: drop if exists remainder

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-03-03T20:40:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>>Chris KL said it should be done for all on the grounds of consistency. 
> >>>But I will happily stop right now if that's not the general view - I'm 
> >>>only doing this to complete something I started.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Well, my use-case was to be able to wrap "pg_dump -c" output in 
> >>begin/commit tags and being able to run and re-run such dumps without 
> >>errors.  Basically I don't like 'acceptable errors' when restoring dumps 
> >>:)  They just confuse newer users especially.
> >>
> >>I also just like consistency :)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Makes sense.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> What's the consensus on this? Nobody else has chimed in, so I'm inclined 
> to do no more on the gounds of insufficient demand. Let's decide before 
> too much bitrot occurs, though.

I kind of liked it, but I think I was the only one.

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