A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am Mon, dem 15.01.2007, um 13:18:11 +0100 mailte Moritz Bayer folgendes:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I would like to create a function which gets a tablename and checks if the
>> specific table exists.The return value should be a bool.
>> Now I'm wondering how to do this the best way.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> You can ask pg_tables:
>
> select count(1) from pg_tables where tablename = 'foo' and schemaname = 'public';
>
>
> This ask for a table called 'foo' in the schema 'public'.
If you do (something like) that in pl/pgsql, you could RETURN FOUND
after performing that query.
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