Re: drop if exists remainder

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-05T19:58:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>However, I see CREATE ROLE doesn't have REPLACE functionality, so what
>is the logic of when we need IF EXISTS and when we don't?  Perhaps they
>all should have it, and the REPLACE is just for objects you want to
>replace but keep existing linkage in place.
>
>  
>

That was my understanding. I think these are orthogonal issues.

Another issue was MySQL compatibility. AFAIK we achieved that when we 
did database, following
{ table view index sequence schema type domain conversion}, which pretty 
much all had to be done together, as they share the same statement node 
type.

cheers

andrew