ALTER TABLE table DROP CONSTRAINT problem - Mailing list pgsql-novice

I have a strange problem on 7.2.1

I am trying to drop a constraint that was set up by this SQL
ALTER TABLE customer_main ADD CONSTRAINT cust_main_agent
  FOREIGN KEY ( agent )
   REFERENCES customer_main ( id )
    NOT DEFERRABLE;

So I do this:
ALTER TABLE customer_main DROP CONSTRAINT cust_main_agent RESTRICT;
And get this error:
ERROR:  ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT: cust_main_agent does not exist

So I try to violate the constraint and I get this:
ERROR:  cust_main_agent referential integrity violation - key referenced from
customer_main not found in customer_main

Any ideas? I am wondering if postgres doesn't like the fact that I have a
constraint going from one column to the id (serial) column of the same table.
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Lewis Bergman
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