Re: DBD::PG question

At 07:30 AM 3/29/05, Frank Bax wrote:

>In a perl script using DBI and DBD:Pg, I need to drop/create a table:
> $dbp->{RaiseError} = 0;
> $dbp->do( "DROP TABLE $table" );
> $dbp->{RaiseError} = 1;
> $dbp->do( "CREATE TABLE $table ..." );
>
>If the table does not exist, the "DROP TABLE" produces an error message;
>but script doesn't die because RaiseError was set to zero. Is there a way
>to suppress this error message and then reset the change so an error in
>create *is* seen?

Thanks to Sean for suggesting I turn PrintError off/on:
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.48/DBI.pm#PrintError
Works as advertised - if only I'd found those docs before asking my question...