| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: create language ... if not exists |
| Date: | 2008-03-29 21:45:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20080329224511.33b743c2@mha-laptop |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > If we're implementing IF NOT EXISTS across the board, let's do that
> > for languages at the same time as for others.
>
> Yeah, if we were going to do it at all it should be handled
> across-the-board, the way DROP IF EXISTS was. However, I seem to
> recall that in the discussions leading up to implementing DROP IF
> EXISTS, we considered and specifically rejected CREATE IF NOT
> EXISTS. Don't have time right now to troll the archives for the
> reasoning.
Right. Which is one of the reasons why I'm suggesting we stick with the
CREATE OR REPLACE for now.
//Magnus
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