Hi! >On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:26:39AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Ilja Golshtein" <ilejn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > postgres=# create table ddd(f1 int4); >> > CREATE TABLE >> > postgres=# drop table ddd; >> > ERROR: "ddd" is not a table >> >> That's just plain bizarre. Would you try it with \set VERBOSITY verbose >> so we can see exactly where the error is coming from? No extra information. Just "ERROR: "ddd" is not a table". >> Has this installation been working for you before? Not really. >> I'm wondering about >> a corrupt backend executable file, or some such ... Looks like. The only special thing (and the only thing to blame) I can imagine about this installation - ICU patch. It was applied without any visible troubles. >Could a corrupt catalog be responsible? I've initialised DB cluster from scratch. Problem exists. >Might a query like the >following reveal anything? > >SELECT c.ctid, c.xmin, c.xmax, c.oid, c.relname, c.relkind, > n.ctid, n.xmin, n.xmax, n.oid, n.nspname >FROM pg_class AS c >LEFT JOIN pg_namespace AS n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace >WHERE c.relname ~* '^ddd'; SELECT c.ctid, c.xmin, c.xmax, c.oid, c.relname, c.relkind, n.ctid, n.xmin, n.xmax, n.oid, n.nspname FROM pg_class AS c LEFT JOIN pg_namespace AS n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace WHERE c.relname ~* '^ddd'; postgres-# postgres-# postgres-# postgres-# ctid | xmin | xmax | oid | relname | relkind | ctid | xmin | xmax | oid | nspname --------+------+------+-------+---------+---------+-------+------+------+------+--------- (5,12) | 621 | 0 | 16386 | ddd | r | (0,6) | 2 | 0 | 2200 | public (1 row) -- Best regards Ilja Golshtein