Re: drop table if exists mytable;

I am not sure if I understood the problem correctly!!!

Can you not use the standard command "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table1" that PG
provides?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-droptable.html

Or is it that you are on a version of PG where "IF EXISTS" syntax is not
available?

Regards,

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On 2/10/07, Anton Melser <melser(dot)anton(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I need to do a "drop table if exists" type thing. I realise I can
> easily look in pg_tables, but for testing (if), don't I need to use a
> procedural language? In which case, I will need to install it if it
> doesn't exist - but I don't know how to test to see whether a language
> exists without using a language!
> Am I missing something simple here? Is there no way to do this outside
> of a function?
> Cheers
> Antoine
>