On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Jon Horsman wrote:
> I have previously used MySQL and was able to accomplish this very
> simply using IF NOT EXISTS for the table and database creation but
> this doesn't seem to be available for postgres and i'm looking for a
> more robust solution anyways.
Well, you could query the SQL-standard Information Schema.
Alternatively, you can query the system tables like pg_class. But if
you want the more standard one, use the tables under schema
information_schema. That's the reason there's a standard.
A
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