On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 28/09/2011 14:09, Michael Bayer wrote:
>>> Hmm, but both mysql and postgres (I suspect others do too, but I haven't
>>> checked) have "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" statements so you don't need to do any
>>> checking. That feels like it should be supported by the DropTable
>>> construct, what am I missing?
>>
>> oh, that. Right you'd need to use @compiles to enhance a new subclass of
>> DropTable to do that, as SQLA's compiler doesn't have the "IF EXISTS"
>> feature present at the moment (it could be added).
>
> I guess it probably should, I think that one could legitimately be in
> sqlalchemy itself ;-)
>
>> The "E" is how psycopg2 formats the %s -> table.name parameter in your
>> statement for certain versions of Postgresql. I don't know what it actually
>> means but if you watch your PG logs you'll see it's used for all bound
>> parameters.
>
> Hmm, any ideas why it'd cause a syntax error here?
>
> I'm doing engine.execute('drop table if exists %s' + table.name) in the
> meantime, which just feels icky...
oh probably it doesn't like table name as a bound parameter.
>
> Chris
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