| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: CREATE IF NOT EXISTS INDEX |
| Date: | 2014-09-30 22:53:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20140930225348.GX2084@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-09-30 18:47:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > On 09/30/2014 02:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> =?UTF-8?Q?Fabr=C3=ADzio_de_Royes_Mello?= <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >>> What's your thoughts about we implement IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE INDEX?
>
> >> It's got the same semantic problems as every other variant of CINE.
>
> > I do think it should be name-based.
>
> Name-based, eh? Don't you recall that in modern practice, people
> generally don't specify names for indexes at all? They've usually
> got system-generated names, which doesn't seem like a very cool thing
> to have scripts depending on.
Good point. I think it's fair enough to only allow CINE on named
indexes.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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