DROP TABLE employees
Error: ERROR: Relation 'employees' does not exist
And execution halts which is I believe why he wanted to check for the
existence before trying to DROP. I'd love to know if this exists as
well...
would come in very handy during development time.
Execution does
Gregory Wood wrote:
What would be nice is if there were a way to only DROP a table if it exists.
But I would consider this to be rather low priority.
This might help...
CREATE FUNCTION table_exists(TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS
'DECLARE
tablename ALIAS FOR $1;
temp RECORD;
BEGIN
