Hi,
I want to delete a table X, that may not exist, hence I execute
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS X;
However, if X is a view, I get an error
ERROR: "X" is not a table
HINT: Use DROP VIEW to remove a view.
SQL state: 42809
That is unexpected and also difficult to handle, if I want to be sure
that I can delete all old tables *and* views called X, and create a new
view for instance with
CREATE VIEW X AS ....
I cannot do that safely, because having both DROP commands would for
sure cause an error and therefore a rollback.
What do you think, is it worth to create a patch to solve this issue,
where a DROP TABLE does not fail, if the given name is actually a VIEW
or vice-versa?
Best regards,
Peter
