On 6 October 2016 at 18:25, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@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


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