index.create should take checkfirst argument as table.create does.

[Former user]

Creating indexes is often done in a comparable way to creating tables. We use table.create(checkfirst=True) often and it would be helpful/symetrical to have that on indexes also.

[Mike Bayer]

if you can try attaching a patch that would be helpful (im pretty swamped)

[Michael Trier]

The issue is that on some backends you can creating multiple indexes on the same column as long as they are named differently. I'm not sure why you would, but you can. I'm -1 on this.

[Mike Bayer]

well, it should at least know how to check for the name you give the index.

[Michael Trier]

We can check for name only then it would work.