Re: Problem dropping table

On 9/18/07, Ken Logan <ken(at)i2rd(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:10 -0700, Alan Hodgson wrote:
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> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:30, Ken Logan <ken(at)i2rd(dot)com> wrote:> When we try to drop the table we get the error:> ERROR: "member_pkey" is an index
> You have to remove the table from it's Slony set before you can drop it. Slony does some hackish things to subscriber tables that make them unusable for normal DDL operations.
> Your master probably isn't too thrilled, either, since it probably thinks the table is still in a set.
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> We actually used slonik_drop_table so its been properly removed from
> slony.
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> In any case, you'd probably have better luck with this on the Slony list. I'm not at all sure your problem can be fixed without discarding the slave, but someone there might know.
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> I was afraid of that... since there doesn't seem to be any remnants left
> behind by slony affecting this table I'm not sure I can ask a sensible
> question about it on the slony list, so I guess I'll need to either dig into
> the source for what the postgresql error message means or reinit the slave
> (again).
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It is a known issue with slony (the foreign key causes it), check the slony
mailing list archives for more info. AFAIK you have to use slonik and
EXECUTE SCRIPT ... EXECUTE ONLY ON NODE x to remove the table.

Regards

MP