Re: CREATE IF NOT EXISTS INDEX

On 2014-09-30 18:47:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > On 09/30/2014 02:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes:
> >>> What's your thoughts about we implement IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE INDEX?
> 
> >> It's got the same semantic problems as every other variant of CINE.
> 
> > I do think it should be name-based.
> 
> Name-based, eh?  Don't you recall that in modern practice, people
> generally don't specify names for indexes at all?  They've usually
> got system-generated names, which doesn't seem like a very cool thing
> to have scripts depending on.

Good point. I think it's fair enough to only allow CINE on named
indexes.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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