Allow IF NOT EXISTS after table name for Snowflake
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Although not documented under https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-table, it is valid to put the `IF NOT EXIST` _after_ the table name when creating a table for Snowflake. This adds support to check for `IF NOT EXIST` again after parsing the table name if it wasn't found before the name.
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As seen by my second commit I just saw further down that this seems to be true for all Snowflake parameters so this basically just extends the existing loop that checks for parameters to include the |
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Although not documented under
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-table, it is valid to put the
IF NOT EXISTafter the table name when creating a table for Snowflake.This adds support to check for
IF NOT EXISTagain after parsing the table name if it wasn't found before the name.I wish I could find some references of this, but sadly it's not that easy. Best I can do is to provide a screenshot from their UI executing a query with
IF NOT EXISTafter the table and show that it succeeds.