A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am  Mon, dem 15.01.2007, um 13:18:11 +0100 mailte Moritz Bayer folgendes:
>> Dear list,
>>  
>> I would like to create a function which gets a tablename and checks if the
>> specific table exists.The return value should be a bool. 
>> Now I'm wondering how to do this the best way.
>>  
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> You can ask pg_tables:
> 
> select count(1) from pg_tables where tablename = 'foo' and schemaname = 
> 'public';
> 
> 
> This ask for a table called 'foo' in the schema 'public'.

If you do (something like) that in pl/pgsql, you could RETURN FOUND
after performing that query.

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