On 2013-10-10 12:54:23 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 09/19/2013 06:12 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >
> >
> >2013/9/16 Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga@uptime.jp <mailto:snaga@uptime.jp>>
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> > I'm looking at this patch, and I have a question here.
> >
> > Should "DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS" ignore error for non-existing trigger
> > and non-existing table? Or just only for non-existing trigger?
> >
> >
> >My opinion is so, both variants should be ignored - it should be fully
> >fault tolerant in this use case.
> >
> >
>
>
> This thread seems to have gone cold, but I'm inclined to agree with Pavel.
> If the table doesn't exist, neither does the trigger, and the whole point of
> the 'IF EXISTS' variants is to provide the ability to issue DROP commands
> that don't fail if their target is missing.
-1, this seems to likely to just hide typos.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
-- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training &
Services
