On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 17:00, Tom Lane wrote: > Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > elevating=# drop table test_types; > > ERROR: could not find tuple for constraint 2041971 > > > I can find no reference to these oids anywhere. > > You haven't looked very hard then ;-). I expect this is because > pg_depend has links from the table to the constraints it owns. > You could probably remove the pg_depend entries to make it possible > to drop the table. > > Use ALTER TABLE next time, eh? Hand manipulation of the system catalogs > is *not* for those who don't know exactly what they are doing. > > regards, tom lane
Hmm I thought I had but pg_depend is one that I missed. I deleted all refs to rows in pg_depends and was able to drop the table. FWIW I tried to use alter table but could never get the parser to accept $1 as a constraint name. I used single and double quotes as well as a lame attempt \$1. Thanks I am breathing better. I was about to pg_dump and restore into a test database to see what would happen then since there was no reference to any of the oids in the error messages found in the dump. I can now resume climbing up the learning curve. Bret ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
