Re: conditional dropping of columns/constraints

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Would a patch adding 'IF EXISTS' support to:
> - ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
> - ALTER TABLE ... DROP CONSTRAINT
> possibly be accepted?
>
> Having it makes the annoying task of writing/testing of schema-upgrade
> scripts a bit easier.

Can't speak for the committers, but I've wished for this a time or two myself.

...Robert