Re: [HACKERS] Idempotency for all DDL statements

2016-10-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 18 October 2016 at 10:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 10/17/16 2:05 PM, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: >> Could I request DDL idempotency as an addition to the development roadmap? > > There is not really a roadmap, but I think there is general interest in > this. If

Re: [HACKERS] Idempotency for all DDL statements

2016-10-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 10/17/16 2:05 PM, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: > Could I request DDL idempotency as an addition to the development roadmap? There is not really a roadmap, but I think there is general interest in this. If you want to make it happen faster, however, you will need to start coding it yourself. --

[HACKERS] Idempotency for all DDL statements

2016-10-17 Thread Kenaniah Cerny
Hello everyone. This is my first time posting in -hackers, so please keep this in mind. I would like to formally request the addition of "IF EXISTS", "IF NOT EXISTS", "OR REPLACE", and any other CINE variants to DDL statements that currently do not feature an idempotent construct. The lack of an