Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On fre, 2011-01-14 at 18:45 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
>> wrote:
>> > There's a similar case with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS, maybe this
>> is
>> > worth covering in an updated patch too?
>> > And if I change that, people might expect the same from DROP X IF
>> EXISTS too?
>>
>> It's far less clear what you'd change those cases to say, and they
>> already emit a NOTICE, so it seems unnecessary.
>
> Maybe instead of the proposed patch, a notice could be added:
>
> NOTICE: existing object was replaced

Well, that would eliminate the backward-compatibility hazard, pretty
much, but it seems noisy. I already find some of these notices to be
unduly informative.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company