Re: How do I drop something that might not exist? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Thursday 19. March 2009, Rob Richardson wrote:
>I tried using an if statement combined with the EXISTS() function:
>
>if exists(select 1 from this_sequence_does_not_exist) then
>    drop sequence this_sequence_does_not_exist;
>end if;

I don't know if it applies to your particular problem, but the standard
SQL if-then-else construct is:

CASE WHEN foo THEN bar ELSE baz;

HTH,
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