Thanks Mike. Luckily, I don¹t need the data if the table already exists so
that should work.

Tony


On 10/11/06 2:53 PM, "Mike Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My advice:
> 
> Do a "drop table" first, ignoring any error that will result if it does not
> exist, then do the "select into". This is portable, too...
> 
>> > I have a script that creates a table copy using SELECT INTO, but I want it
>> > to check if the new table already exists first. Does SQL support the EXISTS
>> > keyword for SELECT INTO statements (I'm running PG7)?
>> > 
>> > If not, is there another way to do it in SQL? I'd rather not do it
>> > programmatically.
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Tony
>> > 
> 
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