Re: What is happening? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: What is happening?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008030840210.497-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to What is happening?  (Carolyn Lu Wong <carolyn@kss.net.au>)
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Carolyn Lu Wong wrote:

> I was trying to dump data, drop then recreate table, and import data
> back to the table. There were errors during the process and the
> transaction was not committed.
> 
> The table is there when I do '\d' and the table definition is there.
> However, I can't drop table nor select from this table. I always get the
> following error:
> 
> ERROR: mdopen: couldn't open accounts: No such file or directory.

what version of PostgreSQL are you running, first off ... what I've done
in the past that has been successful is to go into the
data/base/<database> directory, do a 'touch accounts' so that there is a
file there for the postgres process to unlink, and then do the drop table
...




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