"Barnes, Sandy (Sandra)" <Sandy(dot)Barnes(at)Honeywell(dot)com> writes:
>> 3) creating a database named 'config'
>> 4) creating the table 'config' in the database named 'config'
Can't reproduce any problem with that here. What PG version are you
using, anyway? What's the exact series of commands you're issuing?
>> Also, I notice that when I try to use config as the table name the
>> $PGDATA/config file does NOT get created,
It'd be $PGDATA/base/config/config
regards, tom lane