Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> We have debated CREATE ... IF NOT EXISTS in the past, and there is no
>> consensus on what it should do, so we don't have it for any command. That is
>> quite a different case from what's being asked for, and the two should not
>> be conflated.
> I must be missing something, because the semantics of CREATE ... IF
> NOT EXISTS seem pretty well-defined to me,
Please go read the prior threads (I think searching for "CINE" might
help, because we pretty shortly started abbreviating it like that).
regards, tom lane