On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the original proposal was that we should be relaxed about it.
...in both directions i.e. DROP TABLE would work on a VIEW and DROP
VIEW on a table. That definitely seems like it's going too far.
> Another possibility that would also seem to meet the OP's needs is to
> make it do this:
>
> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS X;
> NOTICE: relation "X" is not a table, skipping
>
> His complaint was really that it generated an ERROR, IIUC.
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