Re: Create table if not exists ... how ??

On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Jennifer Trey wrote:

> No.... I don't want to drop it ... there is valuable data in there! I only want to create it if it doesn't already exist... likely going to happen first time the application will run. I want to create the table then and populate. But not the next time.
>
> Should I just let Java throw and exception and catch it ? Write a function for this would be optimal, although I have no idea what the correct syntax is.
>
> Cheers, Jen

Try something like this:

create or replace function build_foo_table() returns void as $$
create table foo (bar int);
$$ language sql;

select case when (select count(*) from information_schema.tables where table_name='foo')=0 then build_foo_table() end;

drop function build_foo_table();

Cheers,
Steve