Re: EXISTS

On Saturday 11. October 2008, Denis Woodbury wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if this this type of statement can be used in
>Postgresql
>
>IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM Table WHERE col1 = 'mystring' )
>BEGIN
>...
>END
>
>If it can, any idea why I get this error.
>********** Error **********
>
>ERROR: syntax error at or near "IF"
>SQL state: 42601
>Character: 2

CASE IF NOT (SELECT 1 FROM Table WHERE col1 = 'mystring' )
THEN BEGIN
...
END
[ELSE BEGIN ... END];

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