Re: [HACKERS] CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW/TRIGGER

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden(at)netbsd(dot)org>
Cc: Jean-Michel POURE <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org, Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp, oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW/TRIGGER
Date: 2001-10-24 00:56:57
Message-ID: 200110240056.f9O0uvU28519@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > > Alternatively, could someone implement CREATE OR DROP VIEW / TRIGGER? These
> > > features are needed for pgAdmin II (we could also provide a patch for
> > > PhpPgAdmin). If this cannot be implemented in PostgreSQL, we will go for
> > > pseudo-modification solutions (which is definitely not a good solution).
> >
> > Our current CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION perserves the OID of the
> > function. Is there similar functionality you need where a simple
> > DROP (ignore the error), CREATE will not work?
>
> If possible, it's nice to not have commands whose error codes you ignore.
> That way if you see an error, you know you need to do something about it.

Folks, is this a valid reason for adding OR REPLACE to all CREATE object
commands?

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