Re: somehow created type in4 now can't delete

Thank you! That did it.

Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com

Tom Lane
<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)p To: "Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher(at)macys(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [NOVICE] somehow created type in4 now can't delete
03/07/2003
11:53 AM

"Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher(at)macys(dot)com> writes:
> While creating a function, I incorrectly entered int4 as in4 as the
return
> TYPE somehow created a TYPE in4. I subsequently deleted the function
and
> recreated it with the correct int4 type.
> The problem is that I cannot delete the TYPE in4 that was created. I
tried
> Drop type in4, but I get a message RemoveType: type '_in4' does not
exist.

You should be able to just remove the type's row from pg_type:

delete from pg_type where typname = 'in4';

> I can see in4 if I do a \dT from psql. Furthermore, when I start
> pgAdminII, and go to the database, I can no longer see my list of views
> created because I get an error message: cache look up for proc 847021310
> failed.

You'll need to drop and recreate whichever view(s) refer to the old
version of that function.

regards, tom lane