Re: checking for existence of a table in plpgsql.

From: Roberto Mello <rmello(at)cc(dot)usu(dot)edu>
To: Bhuvan A <bhuvansql(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: checking for existence of a table in plpgsql.
Date: 2002-03-14 16:28:34
Message-ID: 20020314162834.GA22202@cc.usu.edu
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0530, Bhuvan A wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> here i use postgresql 7.2.
>
> how can one know that a particular table exists or not in plpgsql?
>
> need is something like this..
> from plpgsql, i wish to insert a record in a table (create and insert,
> if not exists).

Besides what was already pointed out, I remember seeing some function to
check for existance of several things in the Cookbook:
http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/

-Roberto

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