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Re:Ask HN: How is your experience with Oracle, Postgres and ... by pjungwir on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:32AM (#9710115)
The last time I used Oracle was 8i, but it certainly supported IF (NOT) EXISTS.

I mostly agree with you about scaling down, and culturally Oracle DBAs are big at gatekeeping, but as a fairly junior database developer I was still able to figure out the basics of installing and configuring it, so maybe it's not that bad.

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Re:Ask HN: How is your experience with Oracle, Postgres and ... by needusername on Saturday June 13, 2015 @06:40AM (#9710579)
I meant IF (NOT) EXISTS for DDL. It exists for DML of course.
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