Re: 8.1 and syntax checking at create time - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matt Miller <mattm@epx.com> writes:
> > I don't remember the last time I intended to write code that referenced
> > something that did not exist in the database.
> 
> Almost every day, people try to write stuff like
> 
>     CREATE TEMP TABLE foo ... ;
>     INSERT INTO foo ... ;
>     etc etc
>     DROP TABLE foo ;

Point taken.

PL/SQL requires all DDL to be dynamic SQL.  For example:
execute immediate 'drop table foo';

The stuff inside the string is pretty-much ignored at compile time.

Maybe, then, my idealized PL/pgSQL compiler always allows DDL to
reference any object, but DML is checked against the catalog.