Re: Correct behaviour of "DROP DATABASE"

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ben Leslie <benno@sesgroup.net> writes:
> > I was wondering what the expected behaviour of "DROP DATABASE" was.
>
> > Basically the problem i have is that when I drop a database it seems
> > to drop only some of the associated tables.
>
> That is *real* hard to believe, considering that the entire database
> including system catalogs is physically removed (rm -rf no less) by
> DROP DATABASE.  There is nothing left in which table names could
> appear, mixed-case or otherwise, much less the tables themselves.
>
> What PG version are you running, and exactly what are you doing that
> gives you unexpected results?
>

Sorry, my bad. I managed to screw things up so it looked as though
that is what was happening, but it wasn't.

Apologies for wasting time.

Benno