Re: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
Date
Msg-id 200109222133.f8MLXiS04819@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I just hate to add another psql help item and manual page for a REPLACE
> > FUNCTION.  It seems to asymetrical.
>
> Huh?  Who said anything about a separate REPLACE FUNCTION command?  It's
> just an option in CREATE.

Oh, just an option to CREATE.  Sorry.  That sounds fine.  And can we add
this for other objects later?  Sounds like a good plan.

> I don't think that I'd care for a separate REPLACE FUNCTION command,
> since that's just a peculiar spelling of ALTER FUNCTION, and
> historically we've used ALTER for that sort of thing.  But that's not
> what's being proposed here anyway.

Good.

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