Re: [BUGS] BUG #7515: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS fails if schema does not exist

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 05:40:54PM +0000, james(at)illusorystudios(dot)com wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 7515
> Logged by: James Bellinger
> Email address: james(at)illusorystudios(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.1.5
> Operating system: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Server
> Description:
>
> If the table being referenced has a schema in its name, and the schema does
> not exist, DROP TABLE IF EXISTS will have an ERROR instead of a NOTICE.
>
> So for instance,
> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS bar;
> This is a NOTICE if bar does not exist.
>
> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS foo.bar;
> This is an ERROR if foo does not exist, even though that implies bar does
> not exist which means it should be a NOTICE.
>
> Saw this because it was making a drop/recreate transaction fail on me, after
> I changed some code to use a schema.

I looked at this bug report from September. The problem is that
LookupExplicitNamespace() doesn't have a missing_ok parameter, even
though get_namespace_oid(), which it calls, does. By adding a
missing_ok parameter and passing it cleanly, I fixed the problem:

test=> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS foo.bar;
NOTICE: table "bar" does not exist, skipping
DROP TABLE

Patch attached.

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