Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS
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Msg-id 200702191434.34336.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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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