Hans-Jrgen Schnig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> I am using Perl/DBI and I want to know whether I can check if a certain
> table is in the database or not.
> How can I do that without getting "ugly" messages on STDERR?
You can query the system catalogs for the relation you are interested
in; The following query might help:
SELECT c.relname FROM pg_class c WHERE c.relname = 'my_table';
where my_table is the name of the table you are looking for.
Regards,
Manuel.