On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:20:41AM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> The first example below works while the second one is a syntax error despite
> that the documentation
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createtableas.html) makes it seem
> like both should be valid. I do not see any reason to not support CTAS with
> both IF NOT EXISTS and EXECUTE at the same time so I am guessing that this
> was an oversight.
Agreed, good catch.
> I have attached a patch which fixes this. What do you think? Should I add a
> new test case for this or is the change simple enough to not require any new
> test?
A test case in select_into.sql would be nice. Should we back-patch
that? It seems to me that this qualifies as a bug fix, and I don't
see a reason to not support it knowing that we have the infrastructure
for that.
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Michael