Thanks to those who responded, I see PL/PgSQL is the way to go
Regards, denis woodbury
on 10/11/08 1:32 PM, [NAME] at [ADDRESS] wrote:
> Denis Woodbury <denis@woodmic.net> writes:
>> 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
>
> I suspect you are trying to type that directly into SQL.
> You need to be using plpgsql in order to use procedural
> logic (ie, if/then).
>
> regards, tom lane
