Re: alter enum add value if not exists

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter enum add value if not exists
Date: 2012-09-22 21:55:37
Message-ID: 505E33D9.5050704@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 09/22/2012 11:49 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 09/22/2012 05:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> The enum piece is now committed.
>> BTW, looking at that a second time ... the other CREATE IF NOT EXISTS
>> options we have issue a NOTICE when skipping the CREATE action. Is
>> there a reason this shouldn't do the same?
>>
>>
>
> Not really, I guess we should for the sake of consistency, although TBH
> I find it just useless noise and rather wish we hadn't started the
> trend when we did the first DROP IF NOT EXISTS stuff.
Time for a GUC

existence_notice = none | exists | not_exists | all

?

Cheers,
Hannu Krosing

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