Re: Test for existence of Table

On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:11:31 Gregory Wood wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Greg

I just tested this with "psql < script.sql" and execution did not stop.
There may be contexts where this error causes execution to stop but it works
at the command line with psql. That implies that it works within psql using
"\i script.sql", which I have also found to be true.

Tony
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