Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: "drop database DBNAME; " command has critical bug!!!

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: KiBaek Jeong <hannoory(at)chollian(dot)net>, pgsql-ports(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: "drop database DBNAME; " command has critical bug!!!
Date: 1999-05-27 14:55:04
Message-ID: 199905271455.KAA00103@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Summary: "drop database DBNAME;" command has critical bug!!!
>
> Seems to not be a problem in the current sources:
>
> hahaha=> \c postgres
> connecting to new database: postgres
> postgres=> drop database hahaha;
> DESTROYDB
> postgres=> create database hahaha;
> CREATEDB
> postgres=> \c hahaha
> connecting to new database: hahaha
> hahaha=> \d
> Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!

6.4 did not flush buffers on database close, so this may have been the
source of the problem. 6.5 is OK.

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