Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:54:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > >> I would be satisfied if the returned command tag were something else, > > >> maybe "NO OPERATION". > > > > > "TABLE blah DID NOT EXIST" might be less confusing... > > > > You're confusing a command tag with a notice. In the first place, > > we shouldn't assume that applications are ready to deal with > > indefinitely long command tags (the backend itself doesn't think they > > can be longer than 64 bytes); in the second place, they should be > > constant strings for the most part so that simple strcmp()s suffice > > to see what happened. Command tags are meant for programs to deal > > with, more than humans. > > Yep. Because IF EXISTS is in a lot of object destruction commands, > adding a modified tag seems very confusing, because in fact the DROP > TABLE did succeed, so to give any other tag seems incorrect.
I don't understand -- what problem you got with "NO OPERATION"? It seemed a sound idea to me. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
