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Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-02-19T16:52:28Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Am Montag, 19. Februar 2007 13:12 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> >> I don't understand -- what problem you got with "NO OPERATION"?  It
> >> seemed a sound idea to me.
> 
> > It seems nonorthogonal.  What if only some of the tables you mentioned did not 
> > exist?  Do you get "SOME OPERATION"?
> 
> I'd say you get DROP TABLE as long as at least one table was dropped.

If we went with DROP TABLE if any table was dropped, and NO OPERATION
for none, I am fine with that.  What I didn't want was a different NO
OPERATION-type of message for every object type.

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