Re: drop if exists remainder

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: drop if exists remainder
Date: 2006-02-05 16:02:47
Message-ID: 10825.1139155367@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> 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.

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 ...

regards, tom lane

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