Re: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
Date: 2001-09-22 21:33:44
Message-ID: 200109222133.f8MLXiS04819@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I just hate to add another psql help item and manual page for a REPLACE
> > FUNCTION. It seems to asymetrical.
>
> Huh? Who said anything about a separate REPLACE FUNCTION command? It's
> just an option in CREATE.

Oh, just an option to CREATE. Sorry. That sounds fine. And can we add
this for other objects later? Sounds like a good plan.

> I don't think that I'd care for a separate REPLACE FUNCTION command,
> since that's just a peculiar spelling of ALTER FUNCTION, and
> historically we've used ALTER for that sort of thing. But that's not
> what's being proposed here anyway.

Good.

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