{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alimanfoo/petl/issues/376","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alimanfoo/petl","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alimanfoo/petl/issues/376/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alimanfoo/petl/issues/376/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alimanfoo/petl/issues/376/events","html_url":"https://github.com/alimanfoo/petl/issues/376","id":155187909,"number":376,"title":"Question: removal of \"if exists\"","user":{"login":"Jimexist","id":622789,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/622789?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist","html_url":"https://github.com/Jimexist","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jimexist/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-05-17T06:47:12Z","updated_at":"2016-05-17T06:47:12Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I saw that `if exists` was removed in https://github.com/alimanfoo/petl/commit/62f35c542119bc32e782681a15381972072e043e#diff-57ad97c12e2a16f74c54d7bb4d8e332cL252 - any reason why? Now that when I try to use `create=True` and `drop=True` with `todb` and the target table does not exist, it will raise exception."}}