RE: Table Drop Error

But what is the solution in this case?

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:35 PM
To: Bhattacharjee, Soumik <soumik(dot)bhattacharjee(at)kpn(dot)com>; tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table Drop Error

soumik(dot)bhattacharjee(at)kpn(dot)com wrote:
> From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> > <soumik(dot)bhattacharjee(at)kpn(dot)com> writes:
> > > # delete from pg_depend where objid=49179; DELETE 0 # delete from
> > > pg_depend where objid=49179; DELETE 0 # DROP TABLE
> > > caprimeta.tcr_codes CASCADE;
> > > ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation 49179
> >
> > It's not really a great idea to go dropping catalog rows without knowing exactly what you're doing, which I gather you don't.
> > However ... are there pg_depend entries with refobjid=49179 ?
>
> Thanks for the mail, there is no entries in pg_depend as it returns " DELETE 0"
> But the table is not getting dropped.

Please read again. "refobjid=49179", not "objid=49179".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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