| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS |
| Date: | 2007-02-07 19:23:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20070207192320.GA23486@wolff.to |
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:53:34 -0800,
David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:13:48PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > What is the practical purpose of the notices emitted by DROP
> > SOMETHING IF EXISTS when the object in fact does not exist?
>
> DROP ... IF EXISTS is guaranteed not to throw an error. This lets
> people write idempotent scripts which run in a transaction :)
I don't think that's what his question was. I think it was more along the
lines of why don't we get rid of the notices that are just cluttering things
up.
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