Re: BUG #3648: Server crashes when trying to create a table

Anton A. Patrushev wrote:
> Hi Alvaro,
>
> In the function I'm trying to drop this table if it already exists:
>
> BEGIN
>
> DROP TABLE vertices_tmp;
> EXCEPTION
>  WHEN UNDEFINED_TABLE THEN
> END;
>
> CREATE TABLE vertices_tmp ( id serial );
>
> ...

It still works for me.  Can you try my function on your system?  Does it
crash?

create or replace function test_anton() returns void language plpgsql
as $$
begin
  begin
    drop table anton;
  exception
    when undefined_table then
  end;
  create table anton(a serial);
end; $$;

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