Re: Bad interaction between databases

From: darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain)
To: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bad interaction between databases
Date: 1998-03-07 12:45:03
Message-ID: m0yBIyN-000025C@druid.net
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Previously I said:
> From darcy Wed Mar 4 09:52:23 1998
> I can't seem to duplicate this but it happened once and I thought I
> would mention it in case anyone else has seen it as well. I have a
> table for one user and another for myself. Both tables have a table
> called _key. After creating the second database (I had to destroy and
> create it a few times) I looked at the first one and found that the data
> in it matched the new one. I was able to drop that table and recreate
> it without affecting the new one. Very strange.

It got more serious. After playing with the second database for a
while I managed to trash the first one altogether. I had to destroy
it and reload from a backup dump. I have never seen these problems
with PostgreSQL until I created a second database and accessed it as
a different user. I have multiple database on my other system with
no problem but I access all of them as myself, at least as far as
creating, dropping and renaming schema goes. There is some strange
interaction happening here. I'm afraid I don't know where to start
looking for this.
BTW, this is on NetBSD 1.3.

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