Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > > That is the big question. We need to hear about these problems, because
> > > the represent something very strange happening. Somehow, the physical
> > > table was deleted, but it still existed in the system tables.
> >
> > Hmmm...problem is, I would think, in most cases it wouldn't be noticed
> > until a later time, this case as an example...
> >
>
> Isn't it the result of a DROP TABLE failure ?
> mdunlink() removes the base file of a relation immediately and
> the file couldn't be rollbacked in case of abort.
>
> I have already made it possible to DROP TABLE even though there
> aren't base files of relation/indexes in current tree 2 months ago.
>
> Regards.
>
> Hiroshi Inoue
>
Sounds like it was caused by DDL statements in aborted
transactions to me....
Mike (implicit commit, again) Mascari