How do I know if I have successfully created a table (Python, Psycopg2)?

Question

I've looked at the documentations but haven't found anything that lets me know if the last command i've execute via cursor.execute("...") is successful.

I'm expecting a reply like "1 row affected."

Answer 1

I'd expect some kind of exception to be risen.
If everything went ok – the error code is 00000 and no exception will get risen.

In create table case, you can always double check:

try:
    cur.execute("SELECT ouch FROM aargh;")
except Exception, e:
    pass

errorcodes.lookup(e.pgcode[:2])
# 'CLASS_SYNTAX_ERROR_OR_ACCESS_RULE_VIOLATION'
errorcodes.lookup(e.pgcode)
# 'UNDEFINED_TABLE'

Answer 2

This is an old question, but one way to check for a successful operation with psycopg2 is simply to look at the rowcount attribute for the cursor after your statement. This attribute returns the number of rows affected by the last execute statement.

e.g.

connection = psycopg2.connect(dbname="foo",user="postgres")
cur = connection.cursor()
cur.execute("INSERT INTO foo VALUES (%s, %s)", (1,2))
cur.rowcount # returns 1
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM foo")
cur.rowcount # returns 0

A similar attribute is statusmessage, which returns a string including the type of the last operation performed along with the number of rows affected.