Add an `:if_exists` option to `drop_table`

If set to `if_exists: true`, it generates a statement like:

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS posts

This syntax is supported in the popular SQL servers, that is (at least)
SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and MS SQL Sever.

Closes #16366.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_mysql_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_mysql_adapter.rb
index e9a3c26c32..b61b717a61 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_mysql_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_mysql_adapter.rb
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
       end
 
       def drop_table(table_name, options = {})
-        execute "DROP#{' TEMPORARY' if options[:temporary]} TABLE #{quote_table_name(table_name)}#{' CASCADE' if options[:force] == :cascade}"
+        execute "DROP#{' TEMPORARY' if options[:temporary]} TABLE#{' IF EXISTS' if options[:if_exists]} #{quote_table_name(table_name)}#{' CASCADE' if options[:force] == :cascade}"
       end
 
       def rename_index(table_name, old_name, new_name)