kevin barnes wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 2333 > Logged by: kevin barnes > Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PostgreSQL version: 8.1 > Operating system: ubuntu 5.10 > Description: dropdb ignores the database name argument > Details: > > In the 8.1 release on Unbuntu 5.10 there is an error with the dropdb command > in /usr/bin. The error manifests itself by not respecting the DBNAME > argument. It assumes that you want to connect to a database named 'postgres' > and ignores whatever argument you give it. The error returned is: > > dropdb: database removal failed: ERROR: database "postgres" does not exist > > The error is actually correct, because I do not have a database named > postgres, but the command does not work correctly. > > I downgraded through apt-get to 8.0 and dropdb works as expected. I believe > the version I was running was 8.1.3.
I think something strange is happening in your installation. I can not reproduce your failure. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
