Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>
>>Here's a first draft patch for DROP ... IF EXISTS for the remaining 
>>cases, namely: LANGUAGE, TABLESPACE, TRIGGER OPERATOR CLASS, FUNCTION, 
>>AGGREGATE, OPERATOR, CAST and RULE.
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>>
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>At what point does this stop being useful and become mere bloat?
>The only case I can ever recall being actually asked for was the
>TABLE case ...
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>

Chris KL said it should be done for all on the grounds of consistency. 
But I will happily stop right now if that's not the general view - I'm 
only doing this to complete something I started.

cheers

andrew

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