Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I would far rather see people code explicit markers around statements >> whose failure can be ignored. That is, a script that needs this >> behavior ought to look like >> >> BEGIN; >> \begin_ignore_error >> DROP TABLE foo; >> \end_ignore_error >> CREATE ... >> ... >> COMMIT;
> That's a lot of work. How so? It's a minuscule extension to the psql patch already coded: just provide backslash commands to invoke the bits of code already written. > In this particular case I would actually like to > see us provide "DROP IF EXISTS ..." or some such. That's substantially more work, with substantially less scope of applicability: it would only solve the issue for DROP. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings