Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I don't believe you are fairly stating the consensus from previous >>> discussion and I believe that you are actually in the minority on this >>> one. I agree that we probably don't need to support this for object >>> types for which CREATE OR REPLACE is available or can be made >>> available, but that isn't feasible for all object types - tables and >>> columns being the obvious examples. >> What's obvious about it? In particular, I should think that ADD OR >> REPLACE COLUMN would usefully be defined as "ADD if no such column, >> else ALTER COLUMN as necessary to match this spec". Dropping the >> ALTER part of that has no benefit except to lazy implementors; it >> certainly is not more useful to users if they can't be sure of the >> column properties after issuing the command. > > Actually, that's a good idea. But how will you handle tables?
What do you mean? -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
