Thanks, first of all it wasn't my mess, but someone elses.
Secondly this worked however I was unable to use the same name, some remnants of the old database must have remained in pg_database.
I couldn't even reindex it with postgres -O -P
Maybe try a full dump and reload now?
Chris
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