Re: Support for idempotent schema changes? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Lowe
Subject Re: Support for idempotent schema changes?
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Msg-id A59E91A937445645A59CEFAAA15D642646DB05@exch.apnwi.com
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In response to Re: Support for idempotent schema changes?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Within the context of a script, executing:

Begin
Statement1
Statement2
Statement3
Commit

Where I only wish to commit if the error is specific to the object
already existing, and rollback for all other errors, what's the best way
to accomplish that?


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:45 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: David Lowe
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Support for idempotent schema changes?

David Lowe wrote:
> So how can I make statements of the form:

> *      alter table only customers add constraint
> a_previously_missed_constraint unique (a, b, c);
>
> *      add column points int4 not null default 0;

> idempotent?

You just ignore the error if the object already exists.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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