Use pg_dump -c
this will drop the db objects before creating them
Priya
>From: Sam Carleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [ADMIN] sql scripts
>Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:37:00 -0400
>
>I am new to postgres and your mailing lists, please let me know if I
>am posting in th
If it's a bash script you could use:
#
SomeTable=
TableTest=$(psql -d -U -ntc "select relname from
pg_class where relname='$SomeTable'")
[[ -n "$TableTest" ]] && psql -d -U -nc "drop
table $SomeTable"
#
It's not quite "in postgres's sql", but it could get the job done
>-Origina
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Sam Carleton wrote:
> I am working on creating my first database in Postgres. In the
> script that will create all the tables for the firs time, I would
> like to have a conditional statement to delete a table, if it
> already exists.
As far as I know, there is no way to do