From daea4d8eaee010f41e46bb98cd1b2da2f9fb75d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:39:45 +0000
Subject: DROP objecttype IF EXISTS for the following objects:   table view
 index sequence schema type domain conversion

---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml
index 40cc8167ef..8e7cedd71d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml,v 1.22 2005/01/04 00:39:53 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_table.sgml,v 1.23 2005/11/19 17:39:44 adunstan Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
 
  <refsynopsisdiv>
 <synopsis>
-DROP TABLE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
+DROP TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
 </synopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ DROP TABLE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> [, ...] [ CASCADE |
   <title>Parameters</title>
 
   <variablelist>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><literal>IF EXISTS</literal></term>
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
+      Do not throw an error if the table does not exist. A notice is issued 
+      in this case.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+
    <varlistentry>
     <term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
@@ -97,7 +107,9 @@ DROP TABLE films, distributors;
 
   <para>
    This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the standard only
-   allows one table to be dropped per command. 
+   allows one table to be dropped per command, and apart from the 
+   <literal>IF EXISTS</> option, which is a <productname>PostgreSQL</> 
+   extension.
   </para>
  </refsect1>
 
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