Re: [HACKERS] drop if exists remainder

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] drop if exists remainder
Date: 2006-06-08 13:43:19
Message-ID: 44882977.8080308@dunslane.net
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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

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