Re: Please advise features in 7.1 (SUMMARY)

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, xuyifeng <jamexu(at)telekbird(dot)com(dot)cn>
Cc: John Huttley <John(at)mwk(dot)co(dot)nz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Please advise features in 7.1 (SUMMARY)
Date: 2000-11-30 14:55:21
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20001130065521.0177d180@mail.pacifier.com
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At 05:24 AM 11/30/00 +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> Is "if" clause support in PG?
>> for example:
>> "drop table aa if exist"
>> "insert into aa values(1) if not exists select * from aa where i=1"
>
>No. afaict it is not in any SQL standard, so is unlikely to get much
>attention from developers.

The insert, at least, can be written in standard SQL anyway...

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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