Re: [HACKERS] drop if exists remainder

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2006-06-08T13:43:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
>   
>>>> 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.
>>>>         
>>> +1 :)
>>>       
>> +1
>>     
>
> We were talking about this on IRC, and I feel that if we're going to do "IF 
> EXISTS" for any objects, we should do it for all objects.  Otherwise we 
> risk a considerable amount of user confusion.
>
>   

OK there does seem to be some demand for this, so I will rework the 
patch, and hope to get it done by feature freeze - it has bitrotted with 
7 merge conflicts, including the grammar file, so I need to look 
carefully at that. Pity people didn't speak up when this was first 
raised. :-)

cheers

andrew