On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:54:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm honestly looking for some practical use of this. We have debated > > other NOTICE messages over the years, but they at least tell you > > something you can use after the command. > > The objection I had to the original patch (which didn't return a notice) > was that this seemed actively misleading: > > foo=> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS not_there; > DROP TABLE > foo=> > > I would be satisfied if the returned command tag were something else, > maybe "NO OPERATION".
"TABLE blah DID NOT EXIST" might be less confusing... -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
