Re: Truncate if exists

On 9 October 2012 09:33, Sébastien Lardière <slardiere(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:

> With the help of Cédric, here's a patch changing the TRUNCATE TABLE
> command, adding the IF EXISTS option to allow the presence in the list
> of tables of a missing or invisible table.
>
> This meets the needs of scripts that should be run in different stages,
> and do not always have the same visibility on the tables, as well as
> DROP TABLE. Rather than rollback the entire TRUNCATE or transaction, we
> prefer to ignore the absence of the table.
>
> It is a small patch which changes very little code, but that could be
> quite useful.

Agreed.

Patch looks fine, but please observe the coding standards wrt nested brackets.

Will apply in 48 hours barring objections.

Anyone want to check for any other missing IF EXISTS capability in other DDL?

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