SQL: You can make a SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables
WHERE tablename = 'YOUR TABLE NAME';
INTERFACE: I don't know that one
Darren
Darren Ferguson
Software Engineer
Openband
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Joep deVocht wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a few questions. I read through the docs but didn't
> seem to find the answers.
>
> SQL:
>
> - Is it possible to check whether a table exists?
> (I have a script in which I need to delete tables when they exist.
> And I don't want the error-message when I simply delete it)
>
> - Id there a call to retrieve all table names?
>
> Interface:
>
> - I'm using large objects. What I see is that if I create a large object
> and then delete it again later (which will happen often), the large
> object id
> (loid) keeps increasing. This worries me a bit since I don't know
> what's going to
> happen when that variable hit MAXINT or something similar.
> Is there a way to reset the loid?
>
> Many thanx in advance.
>
> Joep de Vocht.
>
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