Re: checking for existence of a table in plpgsql. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 06:40, Bhuvan A wrote:
> how can one know that a particular table exists or not in plpgsql?
How about :

SELECT INTO cnt count( * ) FROM pg_class WHERE relname='mytable';
IF FOUND THEN ...
END IF;

or 

IF cnt > 0 THEN ...
END IF;

This plpgsql snip, will find the number of classes that have the
"mytable" name.

Would this do the trick ? 

/BL