Re: Table appears on listing but can't drop it

Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 01/08/2010 08:39 AM, Fernando Morgenstern wrote:
>> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges
>> -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
>> skynet | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> t1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>> : postgres=CTc/postgres
>> template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>> : postgres=CTc/postgres

> You have a space at the beginning of the name. Try:
> drop database " skynet";

I'm not sure about that, because the whole row seems to be offset in
his email. That could be just copy-and-paste sloppiness. Still,
some sort of non-printing character in the name seems to be indicated,
else he'd not have been able to create another db with name "skynet".

Try something like
select '"' || datname || '"' from pg_database
to get a clearer view of what's really in there.

regards, tom lane