Re: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-25 Thread Dilip Ranganathan
Thanks to everyone for responding. I had turned off email delivery a few months ago but forgot to turn it back on when I got back to working with Sqlite again. Thanks Peter. I guess this means there is really nothing in my code that needs to change other than replacing the explicit database name in

Re: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-24 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:30:27 -0500, Pavel Ivanov wrote: >>> P.S: I know that one can simply do a CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS... but I >>> still need to know if a table exists or not. >> >> You can easily try this with the sqlite3 command line tool by omitting >> the database file name argument on

Re: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-24 Thread Peter Aronson
rg] On Behalf Of Dilip Ranganathan > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 6:45 AM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables > > Currently I use sqlite to create a bunch of on-disk tables to store my > data. I use Sqlite's maste

Re: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-24 Thread Pavel Ivanov
>> P.S: I know that one can simply do a CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS... but I >> still need to know if a table exists or not. > > You can easily try this with the sqlite3 command line tool by omitting > the database file name argument on the command line. > Create a table, insert a row, check sqlite_

Re: [sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-24 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:45:12 -0500, Dilip Ranganathan wrote: > Currently I use sqlite to create a bunch of on-disk tables to store my > data. I use Sqlite's master table to determine if a table already exists > based on which I take certain decisions. > > Suppose I switch these to in-memory table

[sqlite] Checking for existence of in-memory tables

2011-11-24 Thread Dilip Ranganathan
Currently I use sqlite to create a bunch of on-disk tables to store my data. I use Sqlite's master table to determine if a table already exists based on which I take certain decisions. Suppose I switch these to in-memory tables (:memory:), how do I go about checking if a table exists? Do in-memory