Re: error dropping operator - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: error dropping operator
Date
Msg-id 4575.1190128390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to error dropping operator  ("Sabin Coanda" <sabin.coanda@deuromedia.ro>)
List pgsql-sql
"Sabin Coanda" <sabin.coanda@deuromedia.ro> writes:
> I don't have experience with operators. I built one and when I tried to drop 
> it I got th efollowing error: cannot drop operator ... because it is 
> required by the database system.

> How do I drop it please ?

Well, you need to drop *your* operator, not the similarly named built-in
one which is evidently what you tried to do.  You have to watch out for
search_path gotchas here --- most likely, you need to specify the schema
containing your operator explicitly.
        regards, tom lane


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