On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:14:00 -0400, Jodi Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are working on checking to see whether a database has been created > from a Perl/Pg interface. Is there an easy way to count tables such
You should be checking the return code when creating each object and the commit for the transaction. If these indeicate success then the objects were created. > that if the count comes back at zero the script knows that the database > has not yet been created? > We tried simply using \d but cannot get that to work. I would assume > there is some system table that must list the tables when there are some?? > thoughts? \d is a psql command that isn't available in the perl interfaces. You can either query the informatation schema or use the -E option on psql to see what queries to use on the version of Postgres you are running to retrieve that information. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
