Re: somehow created type in4 now can't delete - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Thank you!  That did it.

Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com





                    Tom Lane
                    <tgl@sss.pgh.p       To:     "Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher@macys.com>
                    a.us>                cc:     pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
                                         Subject:     Re: [NOVICE] somehow created type in4 now can't delete
                    03/07/2003
                    11:53 AM





"Patrick Hatcher" <PHatcher@macys.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