Richard Rowell wrote:
Can I accomplish this with postgresql without involving an external
process (like say perl)? I guess I could put the upgrade stuff into
PL/SQL functions and just drop the functions when I'm done, but I was
hoping for something a little "cleaner".
There is no way (currently at
Moving to Postgres from MS SQL server wherever I can. When writing
database upgrade scripts, it is nice to construct the script so it will
run correctly even if run twice. In MS-SQL's TSQL I would do something
like this:
IF( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'foo' AND type ='U' ) <
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