Re: drop table bug and how to recover?

Hi Josh et al,

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:00:12AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > We're running postgres 7.4.1.
>
> Well, first you should upgrade as soon as you can; 7.4.1 has a number of bugs
> related to database recovery you don't want to live with. Please note that
> there are some extra steps required for upgrade 7.4.1-->7.4.5.

I know...but thank you for the reminder.

> > I think I may have hit a drop table
> > bug? I created a table, then dropped it, but now get "relation
> > already exists" when I try to recreate it. There wasn't anything
> > weird about the table AFAIK, except that the rowid was defined with
> > a default nextval of another table's sequence (hence my drop). I
> > did this directly in the SQL monitor.
>
> Mind cutting and pasting the whole session? This is an unlikely bug as you
> have reported it, and it is more likely that something else is going on.

Unfortunately I don't have it any more, it was a few days ago. Is there
anything else I can do to troubleshoot?

Myra