Re: syntax for drop if exists

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The MySQL syntax is actually "drop table if exists foo ...". 
> Implementing this unfortunately generates a shift/reduce conflict, 

What did you try exactly?  I don't see any fundamental reason for
a conflict here.  You may just need to rearrange the grammar to postpone
the reduction a bit.

> Or we could live with the conflict,

Utterly unacceptable; see previous discussions.
        regards, tom lane