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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE ... IF EXISTS feature?
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In response to ALTER TABLE ... IF EXISTS feature?  (Daniel Farina <drfarina@acm.org>)
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Daniel Farina <drfarina@acm.org> writes:
> Is there any reason why Postgres should not support an "ALTER TABLE
> tablename [IF EXISTS]" feature?

I think you've phrased the question backwards.  Why *should* we support
that large increment of complexity?  The use-cases seem pretty few and
far between.
        regards, tom lane

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