Re: [HACKERS] drop before create in pg_dump

>    Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu> writes:
>    > pg_dump won't drop stuff before trying to create it; this makes
>    > dropping a single table (say) and recreating it difficult to automate
>    > since it is subject to error if all the stuff doesn't get dropped
>    > properly.  The following patch causes pg_dump to emit DROP ...
>    > statements prior to emitting CREATE ... statements.
> 
>    I think that ought to be driven by a switch to pg_dump ...
>    much of the time, I would *want* pg_dump's script to fail
>    if there's already an existing item of the given name.
> 
> A switch is fine.  Is there any concensus as to what it should be,
> since the two that come to mind (-D and -d) are both used?

-c for clean.

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