On 6 October 2016 at 18:25, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
> I do not see sarcasm, I see someone trying to work through what is a complex
> scenario.
When someone talks about things "magically working as you think it
should" I see sarcasm. Perhaps I misread, in which case I apologise.
>> _As far as the transaction is concerned_, after the command the table
>
> What command?
The "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" command.
>> But that's NOT what this function is for. It's designed to remove a
>> table without producing an error if it didn't exist. The fact that its
>> RETURN value is "DROP TABLE", whether it dropped or not, shows this.
>
> What function?
I'm mixing up terminologies (statement, not function). I'm still
talking about "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" here.
Geoff