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Re: [HACKERS] Re: Problem dropping databases

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Sferacarta Software <sferac@bo.nettuno.it>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-09-24T14:17:27Z
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> >> I was working on docs and notice that Postgres no longer responds 
> >> with a warning if a database is dropped multiple times:
> Sorry for interference, I'm Jose'.
> Seems that my problem is a little bit different.

I hope so :) My problem was entirely my fault; I'd left some debugging
code in the backend which affected most queries...

> only the following commands
> kill the backend, i.e.:
> 
>    - DELETE
>    - DROP DATABASE
>    - DROP USER
>    - LOCK TABLE
> Any ideas ?

Just guessing: is there an underlying (Unix) permissions problem with
the existing tables? That doesn't seem to fit exactly with the symptoms
though.

                      - Tom