Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder
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Msg-id 44882977.8080308@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
>
>>>> What's the consensus on this? Nobody else has chimed in, so I'm
>>>> inclined to do no more on the gounds of insufficient demand. Let's
>>>> decide before too much bitrot occurs, though.
>>>>
>>> +1 :)
>>>
>> +1
>>
>
> We were talking about this on IRC, and I feel that if we're going to do "IF
> EXISTS" for any objects, we should do it for all objects.  Otherwise we
> risk a considerable amount of user confusion.
>
>

OK there does seem to be some demand for this, so I will rework the
patch, and hope to get it done by feature freeze - it has bitrotted with
7 merge conflicts, including the grammar file, so I need to look
carefully at that. Pity people didn't speak up when this was first
raised. :-)

cheers

andrew

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