Re: How can I check if table exists in DB?

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Sergey Belikov wrote:

> Hi Bruno!
> Thank you very much for your help!!! It works very nicely!!!
> Yet as I understand pg_tables is a system table. In some book I got
> advice to not rely on a schema of system tables.
>  Is there any warranty that the field names will not be changed in
> pg_tables table for at least 5 years?

Not really, but in 7.4, you'll have access to the standard
information_schema.tables which should basically stay the same barring
changes in its definition in the SQL spec.

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