Dropping Databases

We're working in PostgreSQL 7.3.4; we created a couple of test databases to
get familiar with postgres, then attempted to drop them, using DROP
DATABASE <dbname>; however, get kept getting the following error message:
ERROR: DROP DATABASE: database "<dbname>" does not exist
We could connect to <dbname>, it was listed as a database when we did psql
-l, we could list the tables and select rows from those tables--but we
could not drop the database; we finally deleted it's entry from
pg_catalog.pg_database (which we suspect is a dangerous action, and which
presumably does not eliminate the database disk files);

Any ideas?

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David Rickard
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