Adrian, The drop policy IF EXISTS does work.
But it would be nice to have the IF NOT EXISTS on CREATE POLICY so I don't need to do a drop and create. ________________________________ From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> Sent: October 20, 2025 14:51 To: Paul Austin <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Extend CREATE POLICY to add IF EXISTS On 10/20/25 14:49, Paul Austin wrote: > I forgot DROP POLICY already has IF EXISTS I take it that works for you? > > *From:*Paul Austin <[email protected]> > *Sent:* October 20, 2025 2:46 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Extend CREATE POLICY to add IF EXISTS > > Many (but not all) DDL statements use the pattern IF EXISTS or IF NOT > EXISTS. This is really useful if you want to create a re-start-able data > model update script without needing to have PL/pgSQL blocks that has > checks to see if it exists. > > An example of a statement that doesn’t implement this pattern in the > CREATE POLICY statement. > > Is there a plan to add this pattern to the rest of the DDL statements? > Or could it be added to the CREATE/DROP POLICY statements? > > Thanks, > > Paul > -- Adrian Klaver [email protected]
