Re: CREATE TABLE AS does not support IF NOT EXISTS?

[David Waddy <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank-you, mystery solved! I was reading the "CREATE TABLE" docs and not the "CREATE TABLE AS" docs. My mistake.

David Waddy

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:42:37 am David Waddy wrote:
> This works:
> CREATE TEMP TABLE temp_medical_summary AS (SELECT * from
> bov.medical_summary)
>
> This gives an error:
> CREATE TEMP TABLE IF NOT EXISTS temp_medical_summary AS (SELECT * from
> bov.medical_summary)
>
> It would seem that CREATE TABLE AS does not support IF NOT EXISTS. Is this
> true?

FYI the Postgres version would be helpful, as syntax support changes over
versions:)

In any case the most recent production version docs show IF NOT EXISTS is not
supported:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-createtableas.html

>
> David Waddy

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