I've got the bug working on Sparc Linux also. Don't understand why
you can't recreate it.
D.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:21 AM
To: DGowin@avantec.net
Cc: pgsql-core@postgreSQL.org; kraken@blueriver.net
Subject: Re: [CORE] create database bug
> All,
> If you create a database with "_" in the name some strange
> things
> occur. For example:
>
> 1) create database cfg_smb;
> ok
> 2) drop database cfg_smb;
> ok
> 3) create database cfg_smb;
> error: database already exists.
> 4) drop database cfg_smb;
> error: database does not exist.
> (Note: the database directory still exists, but no files are
> within it.)
>
> But on the other hand:
>
> 1) create database cfgsmb;
> ok
> 2) drop database cfgsmb;
> ok
> 3) create database cfgsmb;
> ok
> 4) drop database cfgsmb;
> ok
>
> Everything is fine.
>
> I don't know where the code is that handles the dropping of databases,
> but I would
> think this would be easy to fix.
>
> Versions this was tried on:
> PostgreSQL v6.4, PostgreSQL v6.4.1, PostgreSQL v6.4.2
> Red Hat Linux v5.2, Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
Can't recreate the problem here on bsdi and current development sources.
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