My advice:

Do a "drop table" first, ignoring any error that will result if it does not 
exist, then do the "select 
into". This is portable, too...

> I have a script that creates a table copy using SELECT INTO, but I want it
> to check if the new table already exists first. Does SQL support the EXISTS
> keyword for SELECT INTO statements (I'm running PG7)?
> 
> If not, is there another way to do it in SQL? I'd rather not do it
> programmatically.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tony
> 


Mike Morris
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