Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS
Date: 2007-02-19 13:34:32
Message-ID: 200702191434.34336.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Montag, 19. Februar 2007 13:12 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> I don't understand -- what problem you got with "NO OPERATION"? It
> seemed a sound idea to me.

It seems nonorthogonal. What if only some of the tables you mentioned did not
exist? Do you get "SOME OPERATION"?

There are also other cases where commands don't have an effect but we don't
explicitly point that out.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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