Robert Haas wrote: > With respect to the syntax itself, I have mixed feelings. On the one > hand, I'm a big fan of CREATE IF NOT EXISTS and DROP IF EXISTS > precisely because I believe they handle many common cases that people > want in real life without much hullabaloo. But, there's clearly some > limit to what can reasonably be done this way. At some point, what > you really want is some kind of meta-language where you can write > things like: > > IF EXISTS TABLE t1 THEN > ALTER TABLE t1 DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS t1_constr; > END IF;
FYI, I have felt this way for a while. IF EXISTS seemed like something that should never have been added as an inline SQL command option; it just crept in, and kept growing. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
