Re: drop database / create database / data still here ?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Mitch Collinsworth
<mitch(at)ccmr(dot)cornell(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I thought I understood how this worked, but now it's baffling me.
> I want to drop a database named coral from my test server and load
> a fresh dump of it from my production server.  This has worked when
> I've done it before, but now it's giving me fits.  Here's an
> example:
>
> coral=# \c postgres
> You are now connected to database "postgres".
> postgres=# drop database coral;
> DROP DATABASE
> postgres=# create database coral;
> CREATE DATABASE
> postgres=# \c coral
> You are now connected to database "coral".
> coral=# \dt *.*
>                           List of relations
>       Schema       |              Name              | Type  |  Owner
> --------------------+--------------------------------+-------+----------
>  accmgr             | acct_rate                      | table | accmgr
>  accmgr             | acct_rate_working              | table | accmgr
>  accmgr             | acct_sum                       | table | accmgr
>  accmgr             | acct_sum_raw                   | table | accmgr

I'm pretty sure that at some time you accidentally created those
tables in template1 and now you're getting them every time you create
a database. Clean out template1 and things should be ok.