On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Daniel Farina <drfarina(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
>> Is there any reason why Postgres should not support an "ALTER TABLE
>> tablename [IF EXISTS]" feature?
> 
> I think you've phrased the question backwards.  Why *should* we support
> that large increment of complexity?  The use-cases seem pretty few and
> far between.

Obviously we have different definitions of "a large increment in complexity".

...Robert

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