Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #7873: pg_restore --clean tries to drop tables that don't exist - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 09/19/2013 06:12 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> 2013/9/16 Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga@uptime.jp <mailto:snaga@uptime.jp>>
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>     I'm looking at this patch, and I have a question here.
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>     Should "DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS" ignore error for non-existing trigger
>     and non-existing table? Or just only for non-existing trigger?
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> My opinion is so, both variants should be ignored - it should be fully 
> fault tolerant in this use case.
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This thread seems to have gone cold, but I'm inclined to agree with 
Pavel. If the table doesn't exist, neither does the trigger, and the 
whole point of the 'IF EXISTS' variants is to provide the ability to 
issue DROP commands that don't fail if their target is missing.

cheers

andrew