can't drop table

Started by Brian Hirtover 20 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Brian Hirt
bhirt@mobygames.com

I'm a bit baffled by this, i can't drop a table and I'm getting the
most bizarre message that doesn't make sense to me. To make things
worse, I was able to drop it on my test database which is a dump of
my production database running the same version of postgresql.
The index it's complaining about is the primary for a different table.

Does anyone have any ideas?

basement=# \d game_giveaway
                               Table "public.game_giveaway"
        Column        |  Type   |                       Modifiers
---------------------+--------- 
+--------------------------------------------------------
game_giveaway_id    | integer | not null default nextval 
('game_giveaway_id_seq'::text)
game_id             | integer |
description         | text    |
date_placed_on_list | date    |
date_given_away     | date    |
given_to_user_id    | integer |
Indexes:
     "game_giveaway_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (game_giveaway_id)

basement=# drop TABLE public.game_giveaway ;
ERROR: "game_pkey" is an index
basement=# select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)
(1 row)

basement=#

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Brian Hirt (#1)
Re: can't drop table

Brian Hirt <bhirt@mobygames.com> writes:

I'm a bit baffled by this, i can't drop a table and I'm getting the
most bizarre message that doesn't make sense to me. To make things
worse, I was able to drop it on my test database which is a dump of
my production database running the same version of postgresql.
The index it's complaining about is the primary for a different table.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Can you get a stack trace from the errfinish call to find out what it's
doing exactly? I suppose something is trying to open that index with
heap_open, but I dunno what.

regards, tom lane