Hello
On 30/12/2007, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Marcin Krawczyk wrote:
I just realized something... my bad. It will work since TRUNCATE
removes only table from current session.
If the table exists and you're going to TRUNCATE it before using it,
you
Hi all. Is there a way to determine the existence of a TEMP
TABLE? I need to check i it exists before I create it. Doing simple
check on pg_class or pg_tables is
not enough because there may be other such tables created in other sessions.
Or maybe anyone knows the identification (apart from
Hello
On 29/12/2007, Marcin Krawczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all. Is there a way to determine the existence of a TEMP TABLE? I need to
check i it exists before I create it.
Doing simple check on pg_class or pg_tables is
not enough because there may be other such tables created in other
Thanks for the answer but it's not quite sufficient. The code supplied on
his page:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ...
BEGIN
PERFORM 1 FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables
WHERE tablename = 'xx' AND schemaname LIKE 'pg_temp%';
IF FOUND THEN
TRUNCATE xx;
ELSE
CREATE TEMP TABLE xx(...
END IF;
The function does
I just realized something... my bad. It will work since TRUNCATE removes
only table from current session.
Thank you again.
Regards
Hello
my solution isn't 100% perfect too. Better is test visibility:
SELECT n.nspname as Schema,
c.relname as Name,
CASE c.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 'i'
THEN 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 's' THEN 'special' END as
Type,
r.rolname as Owner
FROM
- Original message --
From: Marcin Krawczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. Is there a way to determine the existence of a TEMP
TABLE? I need to check i it exists before I create it. Doing simple
check on pg_class or pg_tables is
not enough because there may be other
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Marcin Krawczyk wrote:
I just realized something... my bad. It will work since TRUNCATE
removes only table from current session.
If the table exists and you're going to TRUNCATE it before using it,
you could just use DROP TABLE IF EXISTS and then create it. I
