What's the preferred way of checking if a table (in the database I'm using) with a certain name already exists? <BR><BR>I am using PEAR's DB class to talk to MySQL and I have an installer script ...

When calling CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS abc statement directly against MariaDB server and database already exists it correctly signals it via note: Note (Code 1007): Can't create database 'abc'; ...

Then I create table in mysql, insert data in mysql, and update data in ... At last, I drop the table "t_test" in ck, but it still in mysql. So, I try re-create the table in ck like this "CREATE TABLE ...