> That would respond to the abstraction concern in a more complete > fashion. I thought about that one too, but felt that the ability to > look at the whole pg_class row (and not only check existence) had some > value. Also, I've seen people doing things like > ... where relname LIKE 'pattern' and ... > which still works with the namespace OID function but would not work > with a does_temp_table_exist() function. I wouldn't object to doing > both this and the OID function, though. Do you have a proposal for > the exact spelling of the exists() function?
I guess pg_temp_table_exists(text) is the most straightforward. Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
