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From Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Subject create or replace for tables and schemas
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Msg-id 1e5bcefd0708270424g1ed4e7cuef841b282340e477@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: create or replace for tables and schemas  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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For some weid reason, I can't use a stored function nor return data from sql, just send sql to the database, that's my constraint for now and I have to deal with it.

I have to create a schema and just after a table in this schema. I can't check for the existence of the table nor the schema. If the sql code to create the table and the schema is ran when the schema and or the table exist, a sql excepetion is thrown and my application halts.

With this in mind, I'd like to know if there is something like CREATE OR REPLACE for tables and schemas so that if the object already exists, it will just replace it.

For those curious, my company uses an application generator called GeneXus, it has a "sql" "command" which allows you to send direct sql sentences to the database **as long as** they don't return anything. Oh life.

Anyway, thanks in advance,

Marcelo.

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