> On 2 Jul 2024, at 03:22, Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> wrote:
> Patch 0002 deprecates CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW IF NOT EXISTS because it
> no longer seems necessary with patch 0001. Tom Lane commented[1] about
> the general dislike of IF NOT EXISTS, to which I agree, but maybe this
> was meant only in response to adding new commands. Anyway, my idea is
> to deprecate that usage in PG18 and eventually remove it in PG19, if
> there's consensus for it.
Considering the runway we typically give for deprecations, that seems like a
fairly short timeframe for a SQL level command which isn't unlikely to exist
in application code.
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Daniel Gustafsson