On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:54, Kevin Murphy wrote:
> I'm using PG 8.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.4.1.
>
> I've dropped some tables that had associated sequences, but I am unable
> to drop the sequences. I haven't noticed any errors or crashes. It
> will be easy to rebuild the whole database. I'm just reporting this
> because it seemed unusual.
>
> => \ds
> List of relations
> Schema | Name | Type | Owner
> --------+------------------------------+----------+-------
> public | seq_SML_sources_id | sequence | fable
> public | seq_SML_symbols_id | sequence | fable
> public | seq_TaggedEntities_id | sequence | fable
>
>
> => drop sequence seq_SML_sources_id;
> ERROR: sequence "seq_sml_sources_id" does not exist
Notice the error message says seq_sml_sources_id doesn't exist. And it
doesn't. The sequence is named seq_SML_sources_id. You need to quote
it to delete it, since postgresql folds case (to lower case) with
unquoted identifiers.
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