Re: drop if exists remainder - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: drop if exists remainder
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Msg-id 43E624AE.702@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: drop if exists remainder  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: drop if exists remainder  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: drop if exists remainder  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>
>>Here's a first draft patch for DROP ... IF EXISTS for the remaining
>>cases, namely: LANGUAGE, TABLESPACE, TRIGGER OPERATOR CLASS, FUNCTION,
>>AGGREGATE, OPERATOR, CAST and RULE.
>>
>>
>
>At what point does this stop being useful and become mere bloat?
>The only case I can ever recall being actually asked for was the
>TABLE case ...
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>

Chris KL said it should be done for all on the grounds of consistency.
But I will happily stop right now if that's not the general view - I'm
only doing this to complete something I started.

cheers

andrew


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