Re: drop if exists remainder

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-05T16:15:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Here's a first draft patch for DROP ... IF EXISTS for the remaining 
>>cases, namely: LANGUAGE, TABLESPACE, TRIGGER OPERATOR CLASS, FUNCTION, 
>>AGGREGATE, OPERATOR, CAST and RULE.
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>At what point does this stop being useful and become mere bloat?
>The only case I can ever recall being actually asked for was the
>TABLE case ...
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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.

cheers

andrew