> Now, the question is: Is there a way to know if a given table exist?
> Besides doing a direct query to it, of course, as I think that would be
> too much of a dinamite-fishing way of doing it.
I believe you want the pg_tables table (view?) A quick and dirty way would
be :
select tablename from pg_tables where tablename = 'tablecheck' and if you
get a row, the table exists. Alternatively you could select tablename from
pg_tables where tableowner != 'postgres' and get a list of all tables in the
current database that don't belong to the postgresql system.
Though I'm also fairly new to PostgreSQL, so this could also be 'dynamite
fishing' ;)
Sincerely, Warren
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Warren Vanichuk, Systems Engineer,
Street Light Productions Ltd.