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

From Pavan Deolasee
Subject Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS
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Msg-id 2e78013d0702190714m3e40b82qd6f0c016c9bd52ce@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Chatter on DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2/19/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 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"?

I'd say you get DROP TABLE as long as at least one table was dropped.


How about DROP TABLE <cnt> where 'cnt' is the number of tables dropped ?

Thanks,
Pavan

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