Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Cascading statements really need a DRY RUN option. [ shrug ] BEGIN/ROLLBACK serves that purpose fine, in fact better than a per-statement "dry run" option would do: you can run several dependent DDL statements and then look around at the results before committing (or not). Your claim that rollback is slow seems to be born of experience with some other DBMS. regards, tom lane
