Re: Few questions

Is sounds to me that you want to create Temp Tables.

CREATE [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] TABLE table [ (column [, ...] ) ]
     AS select_clause

TEMPORARY or TEMP
If specified, the table is created only within this session, and is
automatically dropped on session exit. Existing permanent tables with the
same name are not visible (in this session) while the temporary table
exists. Any indexes created on a temporary table are automatically temporary
as well.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joep deVocht" <joep@masktools.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] Few questions


>
> 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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