Re: Can't drop table

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Hima Surapaneni <hbsur1(at)student(dot)monash(dot)edu>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can't drop table
Date: 2006-07-03 02:30:00
Message-ID: 20060703023000.52836.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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> I have created a table called experimenters with the following query:
> CREATE TABLE experimenters (
> experimenter_id INTEGER CONSTRAINT firstkey PRIMARY KEY,
> first_name CHAR(20),
> last_name CHAR(25),
> address CHAR(30),
> phone_num CHAR(15)
> );
> The query was successful. But when I try to drop or alter the table, it just hangs without
> echoing any error message. I have to cancel the query to get out.
> I ran the following query to drop the table
> DROP TABLE experimenters;
> It also hangs when I try to alter the table.
> Just don't understand the problem here.
> Any help will be highly appreciated.

You might want to post this on the PG_General Mailing list of you do not get many responses.

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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