"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> Just throwing this out there: would a syntax such as CREATE OF NOT
> EXISTS, a complement to DROP IF EXISTS, avoid the permissions issue?
No, it'd just move it to a different place: now you risk breaking
the restored state rather than pre-existing state.
> And if so, would that be a syntax we'd want to accept in general?
> Could the be a CREATE IF NOT EXISTS TABLE?
*Please* go read some of the linked older discussions before you propose
that. I don't want to rehash it yet again.
regards, tom lane
