Re: Check for table existence

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:47:42PM +0100, Michael Knudsen wrote:
> Hi group
> 
> First, let me say that I am new to postgres. I used MySQL before, but..
> ehm..
> 
> I am trying to do a small program (in C), and I have stumbled on to some
> problems:
> 
>     1. How can I check if a given table exists?
>     2. How can I check if a given existing table has the right layout? (Correct
> column names and types)

There's a function to check for a table's existance in the PostgreSQL
Cookbook (http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/)

-Roberto

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