Re: remnants of deleted table causing problems

From: Tim Wilson <wilson(at)visi(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: remnants of deleted table causing problems
Date: 2002-05-28 19:13:16
Message-ID: 20020528191316.GB28402@isis.visi.com
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:03:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tim Wilson <wilson(at)visi(dot)com> writes:
> > I used 'new_event' as the name of the newly created 'event' table. I
> > subsequently renamed it back to 'event'. I've looked all through the
> > database looking for rogue references to 'new_event', but I can't find
> > any.
>
> I'd bet on a referential integrity trigger causing the problem. Up till
> very recently, RENAME TABLE wasn't smart enough to adjust RI trigger
> parameters. (Don't recall if the fix is in 7.2 or not; it may only be
> in development sources.)

So I should drop the 'location_exists' constraint in the 'event' table
and recreate it?

-Tim

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