Does PG have any way of doing $subject without writing a plpgsql-function
which does it by querying the catalog manually?

I'm looking for an equivalent of "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS <mytable>"

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On Jan 23, 2008 4:25 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> wrote:
> Does PG have any way of doing $subject without writing a plpgsql-function
> which does it by querying the catalog manually?

No.

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